Commit be2a2080 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo

block: Move bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk()

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1659111

Commit 6cd18e71 "block: destroy bdi before blockdev is
unregistered." moved bdi unregistration (at that time through
bdi_destroy()) from blk_release_queue() to blk_cleanup_queue() because
it needs to happen before blk_unregister_region() call in del_gendisk()
for MD. SCSI though will free up the device number from sd_remove()
called through a maze of callbacks from device_del() in
__scsi_remove_device() before blk_cleanup_queue() and thus similar races
as described in 6cd18e71 can happen for SCSI as well as reported by
Omar [1].

Moving bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk() works for MD and fixes the
problem for SCSI since del_gendisk() gets called from sd_remove() before
freeing the device number.

This also makes device_add_disk() (calling bdi_register_owner()) more
symmetric with del_gendisk().

[1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=148554717109098&w=2Tested-by: default avatarLekshmi Pillai <lekshmicpillai@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Tested-by: default avatarOmar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
(back ported from commit 165a5e22)

Conflicts:
	block/blk-core.c
Signed-off-by: default avatarThiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSeth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBrad Figg <brad.figg@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
parent d86db5cc
......@@ -579,8 +579,6 @@ void blk_cleanup_queue(struct request_queue *q)
q->queue_lock = &q->__queue_lock;
spin_unlock_irq(lock);
bdi_unregister(q->backing_dev_info);
/* @q is and will stay empty, shutdown and put */
blk_put_queue(q);
}
......
......@@ -658,6 +658,11 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
disk->flags &= ~GENHD_FL_UP;
sysfs_remove_link(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, "bdi");
/*
* Unregister bdi before releasing device numbers (as they can get
* reused and we'd get clashes in sysfs).
*/
bdi_unregister(disk->queue->backing_dev_info);
blk_unregister_queue(disk);
blk_unregister_region(disk_devt(disk), disk->minors);
......
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