The patch titled bdi: register sysfs bdi device only once per queue has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is bdi-register-sysfs-bdi-device-only-once-per-queue.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: bdi: register sysfs bdi device only once per queue From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> Devices which share the same queue, like floppies and mtd devices, get registered multiple times in the bdi interface, but bdi accounts only the last registered device of the devices sharing one queue. On remove, all earlier registered devices leak, stay around in sysfs, and cause "duplicate filename" errors if the devices are re-created. This prevents the creation of multiple bdi interfaces per queue, and the bdi device will carry the dev_t name of the block device which is the first one registered, of the pool of devices using the same queue. Tested-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/backing-dev.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/backing-dev.c~bdi-register-sysfs-bdi-device-only-once-per-queue mm/backing-dev.c --- a/mm/backing-dev.c~bdi-register-sysfs-bdi-device-only-once-per-queue +++ a/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -176,6 +176,9 @@ int bdi_register(struct backing_dev_info int ret = 0; struct device *dev; + if (bdi->dev) + goto exit; + va_start(args, fmt); dev = device_create_vargs(bdi_class, parent, MKDEV(0, 0), bdi, fmt, args); va_end(args); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx are origin.patch bdi-register-sysfs-bdi-device-only-once-per-queue.patch bdi-register-sysfs-bdi-device-only-once-per-queue-fix.patch linux-next.patch rtc-struct-device-replace-bus_id-with-dev_name-dev_set_name.patch edac-struct-device-replace-bus_id-with-dev_name-dev_set_name.patch edac-struct-device-replace-bus_id-with-dev_name-dev_set_name-checkpatch-fixes.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html