Re: regression caused by block: freeze the queue earlier in del_gendisk

[Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 02:40:57PM +0000, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On 9/7/22 01:38, Ming Lei wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 07, 2022 at 09:33:24AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 03:06:08PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> >>> It is a bit hard to associate the above commit with reported issue.
> >>
> >> So the messages clearly are about something trying to open a device
> >> that went away at the block layer, but somehow does not get removed
> >> in time by udev (which seems to be a userspace bug in CoreOS).  But
> >> even with that we really should not hang.
> > 
> > The new device should be allocated from md_probe() via blk_request_module(),
> > and the underlying devices are virtio-blk from the fedora BZ2121791.
> > 
> > [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2121791
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ming
> > 
> 
> It would be really helpful if mdraid experts can write blktests so it
> will get tested in the nightly builds along with other tests with
> different distros.

Can't agree more, and Cc linux-raid and our raid guys.

And looks this one is more related with imsm.


Thanks,
Ming