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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Boris Burkov <boris@bur.io>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>,
	dsterba@suse.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: validate device maj:min during open
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 09:42:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZetOIKNJRsdFNJ3A@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240308173254.GA2469063@zen.localdomain>

On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 09:32:54AM -0800, Boris Burkov wrote:
> You remove/add the device in a way that results in a new bd_dev while
> the filesystem is unmounted but btrfs is still caching the struct
> btrfs_device. When we unmount a multi-device fs, we don't clear the
> device cache, since we need it to remount with just one device name
> later.
> 
> The mechanism I used for getting a different bd_dev was partitioning two
> different devices in two different orders.

Ok, so we have a btrfs_device without a bdev around, which seems a bit
dangerous.  Also relying on the dev_t for any kind of device identify
seems very dangerous.  Aren't there per-device UUIDs or similar
identifiers that are actually reliabe and can be used instead of the
dev_t?


  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-08 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-08  2:45 [PATCH v2] btrfs: validate device maj:min during open Anand Jain
2024-03-08 15:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-03-08 16:04   ` Anand Jain
2024-03-08 16:10     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-03-08 16:23       ` Anand Jain
2024-03-08 17:23         ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-03-08 17:32           ` Boris Burkov
2024-03-08 17:42             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2024-03-08 17:51               ` Boris Burkov
2024-03-13 16:24                 ` Anand Jain
2024-03-08 17:41 ` Boris Burkov
2024-03-12 19:17   ` Boris Burkov
2024-03-13 10:25     ` Anand Jain

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