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

Jens Axboe
2022-09-21T14:59:35Z

On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 8:47 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> 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...

This is the one:

commit 4c66a326b5ab784cddd72de07ac5b6210e9e1b06 (origin/block-6.0, block-6.0)
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Mon Sep 19 16:40:49 2022 +0200

Revert "block: freeze the queue earlier in del_gendisk"

Thanks Greg!

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Jens Axboe