3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7b74e912785a11572da43292786ed07ada7e3e0c upstream. While adding and removing a lot of disks disks and partitions this sometimes shows up: WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:512 sysfs_add_one+0xc9/0x130() (Not tainted) Hardware name: sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/dev/block/259:751' Modules linked in: raid1 autofs4 bnx2fc cnic uio fcoe libfcoe libfc 8021q scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt garp stp llc sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand powernow_k8 freq_table mperf ipv6 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log power_meter microcode dcdbas serio_raw amd64_edac_mod edac_core edac_mce_amd i2c_piix4 i2c_core k10temp bnx2 sg ixgbe dca mdio ext4 mbcache jbd2 dm_round_robin sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif ata_generic pata_acpi pata_atiixp ahci mptsas mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_sas dm_multipath dm_mod [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] Pid: 44103, comm: async/16 Not tainted 2.6.32-195.el6.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0 warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50 sysfs_add_one+0xc9/0x130 sysfs_do_create_link+0x12b/0x170 sysfs_create_link+0x13/0x20 device_add+0x317/0x650 idr_get_new+0x13/0x50 add_partition+0x21c/0x390 rescan_partitions+0x32b/0x470 sd_open+0x81/0x1f0 [sd_mod] __blkdev_get+0x1b6/0x3c0 blkdev_get+0x10/0x20 register_disk+0x155/0x170 add_disk+0xa6/0x160 sd_probe_async+0x13b/0x210 [sd_mod] add_wait_queue+0x46/0x60 async_thread+0x102/0x250 default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 async_thread+0x0/0x250 kthread+0x96/0xa0 child_rip+0xa/0x20 kthread+0x0/0xa0 child_rip+0x0/0x20 This most likely happens because dev_t is freed while the number is still used and idr_get_new() is not protected on every use. The fix adds a mutex where it wasn't before and moves the dev_t free function so it is called after device del. Signed-off-by: Tomas Henzl <thenzl@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/genhd.c | 6 +++++- block/partition-generic.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -422,14 +422,18 @@ int blk_alloc_devt(struct hd_struct *par do { if (!idr_pre_get(&ext_devt_idr, GFP_KERNEL)) return -ENOMEM; + mutex_lock(&ext_devt_mutex); rc = idr_get_new(&ext_devt_idr, part, &idx); + mutex_unlock(&ext_devt_mutex); } while (rc == -EAGAIN); if (rc) return rc; if (idx > MAX_EXT_DEVT) { + mutex_lock(&ext_devt_mutex); idr_remove(&ext_devt_idr, idx); + mutex_unlock(&ext_devt_mutex); return -EBUSY; } @@ -646,7 +650,6 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk) disk_part_iter_exit(&piter); invalidate_partition(disk, 0); - blk_free_devt(disk_to_dev(disk)->devt); set_capacity(disk, 0); disk->flags &= ~GENHD_FL_UP; @@ -664,6 +667,7 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk) if (!sysfs_deprecated) sysfs_remove_link(block_depr, dev_name(disk_to_dev(disk))); device_del(disk_to_dev(disk)); + blk_free_devt(disk_to_dev(disk)->devt); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(del_gendisk); --- a/block/partition-generic.c +++ b/block/partition-generic.c @@ -249,11 +249,11 @@ void delete_partition(struct gendisk *di if (!part) return; - blk_free_devt(part_devt(part)); rcu_assign_pointer(ptbl->part[partno], NULL); rcu_assign_pointer(ptbl->last_lookup, NULL); kobject_put(part->holder_dir); device_del(part_to_dev(part)); + blk_free_devt(part_devt(part)); hd_struct_put(part); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html