Re: [PATCH 0/4] block: Fixes for bdi handling

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Jan Kara wrote on 09/03/17 03:18:
> Hi!
>
> patches in this series fix the most urgent bugs that were introduced by commit
> 165a5e22fafb "block: Move bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk()" and by
> 0dba1314d4f8 "scsi, block: fix duplicate bdi name registration crashes".
> In fact before these commits we had a different set of problems in the
> code but they were less visible :).
>
> I'm still waiting for test confirmation from Omar and Arthur Marsh who reported
> issues but I'm not able to hit any problem anymore in my testing.  I think it
> would be nice to get the patches to rc2 so to speed up things I'm posting the
> patches now so that review can happen in parallel with the testing.
>
> Other BDI handling fixes I have in my queue can wait a bit more since they are
> either theoretical or long-standing issues. So I'll repost them once these four
> are sorted out.
>
> 								Honza
>

Sorry for the delay in replying, I had to leave the kernel with all 4 
patches applied rebuilding while I was at work and just booted it.

I've only done a kexec reboot so far but there were no problems - no 
errors in dmesg, all disks were recognised and all attempted mounts worked.

Thanks very much for the quick fix!

Arthur.