3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> commit f4953fe6c4aeada2d5cafd78aa97587a46d2d8f9 upstream. When a file system is mounted on a virtio-blk disk, we then remove it and then reattach it, the reattached disk gets the same disk name and ids as the hot removed one. This leads to very nasty effects - mostly rendering the newly attached device completely unusable. Trying what happens when I do the same thing with a USB device, I saw that the sd node simply doesn't get free'd when a device gets forcefully removed. Imitate the same behavior for vd devices. This way broken vd devices simply are never free'd and newly attached ones keep working just fine. Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/virtio_blk.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c @@ -573,6 +573,7 @@ static void __devexit virtblk_remove(str { struct virtio_blk *vblk = vdev->priv; int index = vblk->index; + int refc; /* Prevent config work handler from accessing the device. */ mutex_lock(&vblk->config_lock); @@ -587,11 +588,15 @@ static void __devexit virtblk_remove(str flush_work(&vblk->config_work); + refc = atomic_read(&disk_to_dev(vblk->disk)->kobj.kref.refcount); put_disk(vblk->disk); mempool_destroy(vblk->pool); vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev); kfree(vblk); - ida_simple_remove(&vd_index_ida, index); + + /* Only free device id if we don't have any users */ + if (refc == 1) + ida_simple_remove(&vd_index_ida, index); } #ifdef CONFIG_PM -- 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