Re: mount stuck, khubd blocked

[Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>]

Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> writes:

> On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Jeff Moyer wrote:
>
>> Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Dima Tisnek wrote:
>> >
>> >> I made a microsd flash with 2 partitions, sdb1 is data partition, and
>> >> sdb2 is a sentinel partition, 1 block in size.
>> >> 
>> >> I attached the usb-microsd reader with that card in it and by mistake
>> >> tried to mount the sentinel partition, I ran:
>> >> mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/flash/
>> >> 
>> >> mount got stuck, I was not able to kill or strace it, I pulled the usb
>> >> reader from the port, mount was still stuck, here's the dmesg log:
>> 
>> Hi, Dima,
>> 
>> Could you try the following patch?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>> 
>> diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c
>> index 838a9cf..769b30b 100644
>> --- a/fs/buffer.c
>> +++ b/fs/buffer.c
>> @@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ init_page_buffers(struct page *page, struct block_device *bdev,
>>  			bh->b_blocknr = block;
>>  			if (uptodate)
>>  				set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
>> -			if (block < end_block)
>> +			if (block <= end_block)
>>  				set_buffer_mapped(bh);
>>  		}
>>  		block++;
>
> Jeff, does this also fix Bugzilla #43269?

First, this patch is wrong.  I posted another version later on that got
merged for 3.5.

As for bug 43269, it does not look like the same symptoms, so I would
not expect the patches I posted to resolve that issue.  Sorry.

Cheers,
Jeff