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Commit 560e7cb2 authored by Jan Kara's avatar Jan Kara Committed by Jens Axboe
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blockdev: Avoid two active bdev inodes for one device



When blkdev_open() races with device removal and creation it can happen
that unhashed bdev inode gets associated with newly created gendisk
like:

CPU0					CPU1
blkdev_open()
  bdev = bd_acquire()
					del_gendisk()
					  bdev_unhash_inode(bdev);
					remove device
					create new device with the same number
  __blkdev_get()
    disk = get_gendisk()
      - gets reference to gendisk of the new device

Now another blkdev_open() will not find original 'bdev' as it got
unhashed, create a new one and associate it with the same 'disk' at
which point problems start as we have two independent page caches for
one device.

Fix the problem by verifying that the bdev inode didn't get unhashed
before we acquired gendisk reference. That way we make sure gendisk can
get associated only with visible bdev inodes.

Tested-by: default avatarHou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 56c0908c
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