Re: Subject: [PATCH] block: fix __blkdev_get() for removable devices

Jens Axboe
2008-11-05T09:21:05Z

On Wed, Nov 05 2008, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 01:16:07PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Commit 0762b8bde9729f10f8e6249809660ff2ec3ad735 moved disk_get_part()
> > in front of recursive get on the whole disk, which caused removable
> > devices to try disk_get_part() before rescanning after a new media is
> > inserted, which might fail legit open attempts or give the old
> > partition.
> >
> > This patch fixes the problem by moving disk_get_part() after
> > __blkdev_get() on the whole disk.
> >
> > This problem was spotted by Borislav Petkov.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> > Cc: <Borislav Petkov> petkovbb@googlemail.com
> > ---
> > Borislav, can you please verify this patch? Thanks.
>
> Yep, it works. Thanks.
>
> Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>

I merged it and added your tested-by.

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Jens Axboe