Re: [PATCH] fs,block: yield devices early

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:47:22 +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Currently a device is only really released once the umount returns to
> userspace due to how file closing works. That ultimately could cause
> an old umount assumption to be violated that concurrent umount and mount
> don't fail. So an exclusively held device with a temporary holder should
> be yielded before the filesystem is gone. Add a helper that allows
> callers to do that. This also allows us to remove the two holder ops
> that Linus wasn't excited about.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[1/1] fs,block: yield devices early
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/482496f606a1