> BTW, this part of commit message in 2c18a63b760a is rather confused: > Recent rework moved block device closing out of sb->put_super() and into > sb->kill_sb() to avoid deadlocks as s_umount is held in put_super() and > blkdev_put() can end up taking s_umount again. > > That was *NOT* what a recent rework had done. Block device closing had never > been inside ->put_super() - at no point since that (closing, that is) had been > introduced back in 0.97 ;-) ->put_super() predates it (0.95c+). I think the commit message probably just isn't clear enough. The main block device of a superblock isn't closed in sb->put_super(). That's always been closed in kill_block_super() after generic_shutdown_super(). But afaict filesystem like ext4 and xfs may have additional block devices open exclusively and closed them in sb->put_super(): xfs_fs_put_super() -> xfs_close_devices() -> xfs_blkdev_put() -> blkdev_put() ext4_put_super() -> ext4_blkdev_remove() -> blkdev_put()