From: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"kay.sievers@vrfy.org" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
"hch@infradead.org" <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: block: Fix oops caused by __blkdev_get() calling disk_unblock_events() with invalid @disk
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:16:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D77D1F2.2030104@fusionio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110309185909.GA13729@mtj.dyndns.org>
On 2011-03-09 19:59, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 07:26:44PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> This is fixed by moving reference putting after open success is
>>> determined and not clearing @disk to %NULL. On success, @disk is
>>> valid because there is another opener holding reference to it. On
>>> failure, the references are put after disk_unblock_events() is
>>> called.
>>
>> Thanks, applied. A bit unfortunate to have a 100% crasher in the tree,
>> though. Will suck for bisects.
>
> Yeah, that does suck. I folded in the fix to the offending commit and
> regenerated the tree in case you want to rebase the tree.
>
> ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git disk-event-convert-fixed
Thanks, but it's pretty deep in at this point. I'll take a look at it.
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-09 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-09 9:13 [PATCHSET] block: Convert block drivers to ->check_events(), take#2 Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 01/16] block: Don't implicitly trigger event check on disk_unblock_events() Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 02/16] block: Don't check events on close unless it was blocked Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 03/16] block: Don't check events while open is in progress Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 04/16] ide: Convert to bdops->check_events() Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 22:17 ` David Miller
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 05/16] floppy,{ami|ata}flop: " Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 06/16] gdrom,viocd: " Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 07/16] paride: " Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 08/16] dac960: " Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 09/16] swim[3]: " Tejun Heo
2011-03-10 0:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 10/16] ub: " Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 16:46 ` Pete Zaitcev
2011-03-09 16:58 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 11/16] xsysace: " Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 12/16] i2o_block: " Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 13/16] s390/tape_block: " Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 14/16] umem: Drop dummy ->media_changed() Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 15/16] pktcdvd: Convert to bdops->check_events() Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:13 ` [PATCH 16/16] staging: " Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 9:20 ` [PATCHSET] block: Convert block drivers to ->check_events(), take#2 Jens Axboe
2011-03-09 14:49 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-09 15:38 ` block: Fix oops caused by __blkdev_get() calling disk_unblock_events() with invalid @disk Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 18:26 ` Jens Axboe
2011-03-09 18:59 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-09 19:16 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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