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Commit cefff54f authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Gerrit - the friendly Code Review server
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block: Move bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk()

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=2



Change-Id: I69e154d5b1222978daed6fd47073b16981f8602f
Tested-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>
Git-commit: 165a5e22fafb127ecb5914e12e8c32a1f0d3f820
Git-repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git


Signed-off-by: default avatarRitesh Harjani <riteshh@codeaurora.org>
parent 3385bb13
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