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Commit 809b1e49 authored by Hannes Reinecke's avatar Hannes Reinecke Committed by Mike Snitzer
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dm: avoid filesystem lookup in dm_get_dev_t()



This reverts commit
644bda6f ("dm table: fall back to getting device using name_to_dev_t()")

dm_get_dev_t() is just used to convert an arbitrary 'path' string
into a dev_t. It doesn't presume that the device is present; that
check will be done later, as the only caller is dm_get_device(),
which does a dm_get_table_device() later on, which will properly
open the device.

So if the path string already _is_ in major:minor representation
we can convert it directly, avoiding a recursion into the filesystem
to lookup the block device.

This avoids a hang in multipath_message() when the filesystem is
inaccessible.

Fixes: 644bda6f ("dm table: fall back to getting device using name_to_dev_t()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
parent 004b8ae9
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