Re: [PATCH 1/4] block: Allow bdi re-registration

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On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 11:16:21AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> SCSI can call device_add_disk() several times for one request queue when
> a device in unbound and bound, creating new gendisk each time. This will
> lead to bdi being repeatedly registered and unregistered. This was not a
> big problem until commit 165a5e22fafb "block: Move bdi_unregister() to
> del_gendisk()" since bdi was only registered repeatedly (bdi_register()
> handles repeated calls fine, only we ended up leaking reference to
> gendisk due to overwriting bdi->owner) but unregistered only in
> blk_cleanup_queue() which didn't get called repeatedly. After
> 165a5e22fafb we were doing correct bdi_register() - bdi_unregister()
> cycles however bdi_unregister() is not prepared for it. So make sure
> bdi_unregister() cleans up bdi in such a way that it is prepared for
> a possible following bdi_register() call.
> 
> An easy way to provoke this behavior is to enable
> CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE and use scsi_debug driver to create a
> scsi disk which immediately hangs without this fix.
> 
> Fixes: 165a5e22fafb127ecb5914e12e8c32a1f0d3f820
> Tested-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

-- 
tejun



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