On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/01/2017 02:05 PM, Dan Williams wrote: >> Warnings of the following form occur because scsi reuses a devt number >> while the block layer still has it referenced as the name of the bdi >> [1]: >> >> WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 93 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x62/0x80 >> sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/bdi/8:192' >> [..] >> Call Trace: >> dump_stack+0x86/0xc3 >> __warn+0xcb/0xf0 >> warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5f/0x80 >> ? kernfs_path_from_node+0x4f/0x60 >> sysfs_warn_dup+0x62/0x80 >> sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x77/0x90 >> kobject_add_internal+0xb2/0x350 >> kobject_add+0x75/0xd0 >> device_add+0x15a/0x650 >> device_create_groups_vargs+0xe0/0xf0 >> device_create_vargs+0x1c/0x20 >> bdi_register+0x90/0x240 >> ? lockdep_init_map+0x57/0x200 >> bdi_register_owner+0x36/0x60 >> device_add_disk+0x1bb/0x4e0 >> ? __pm_runtime_use_autosuspend+0x5c/0x70 >> sd_probe_async+0x10d/0x1c0 >> async_run_entry_fn+0x39/0x170 >> >> This is a brute-force fix to pass the devt release information from >> sd_probe() to the locations where we register the bdi, >> device_add_disk(), and unregister the bdi, blk_cleanup_queue(). >> >> Thanks to Omar for the quick reproducer script [2]. This patch survives >> where an unmodified kernel fails in a few seconds. > > What is the patch against? Doesn't seem to apply cleanly for me on > master, nor the 4.11 block tree. > I built it on top of Jan's bdi fixes series [1]. I can rebase to block/for-next, just let me know which patches you want to take first. [1]: http://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=148586843819160&w=2