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

Greg KH
2022-09-21T14:47:28Z

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 08:34:26AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 9/21/22 3:25 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > On 20.09.22 16:14, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >> On 9/20/22 8:12 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 08:05:06AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >>>> Christoph and I discussed this one last week, and he has a plan to try
> >>>> a flag approach. Christoph, did you get a chance to bang that out? Would
> >>>> be nice to get this one wrapped up.
> >>>
> >>> I gave up on that as it will be far too much change so late in
> >>> the cycle and sent you the revert yesterday.
> >>
> >> Gotcha, haven't made it all the way through the emails of the morning yet.
> >> I'll queue it up.
> >
> > Thx to both of you for taking care of this.
> >
> > Nitpicking: that patch is missing a "CC: stable@..." tag to ensure
> > automatic and quick backporting to 5.19.y. Or is the block layer among
> > the subsystems that prefer to handle such things manually?
> >
> > Ohh, and a fixes tag might have been good as well; a "Link:" tag
> > pointing to the report, too. If either would have been there, regzbot
> > would have noticed Christoph's patch posting and I wouldn't have
> > bothered you yesterday. :-) But whatever, not that important.
>
> We'll just have to ensure we ping stable on it when it goes in.

If you have a git id that is not going to change, I can watch out for it
to land in Linus's tree...

thanks,

greg k-h