Need to unfreeze and release bdev otherwise the bdev inode with inconsistent state is reused later and cause problem. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura --- linux-2.6.15.orig/drivers/md/dm.c 2006-02-23 18:28:23.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.15/drivers/md/dm.c 2006-02-23 18:29:04.000000000 -0500 @@ -812,6 +812,10 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(u static void free_dev(struct mapped_device *md) { + if (md->suspended_bdev) { + thaw_bdev(md->suspended_bdev, NULL); + bdput(md->suspended_bdev); + } free_minor(md->disk->first_minor); mempool_destroy(md->tio_pool); mempool_destroy(md->io_pool);