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Dan Williams 0dba1314d4 scsi, block: fix duplicate bdi name registration crashes
Warnings of the following form occur because scsi reuses a devt number
while the block layer still has it referenced as the name of the bdi
[1]:

 WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 93 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x62/0x80
 sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/virtual/bdi/8:192'
 [..]
 Call Trace:
  dump_stack+0x86/0xc3
  __warn+0xcb/0xf0
  warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5f/0x80
  ? kernfs_path_from_node+0x4f/0x60
  sysfs_warn_dup+0x62/0x80
  sysfs_create_dir_ns+0x77/0x90
  kobject_add_internal+0xb2/0x350
  kobject_add+0x75/0xd0
  device_add+0x15a/0x650
  device_create_groups_vargs+0xe0/0xf0
  device_create_vargs+0x1c/0x20
  bdi_register+0x90/0x240
  ? lockdep_init_map+0x57/0x200
  bdi_register_owner+0x36/0x60
  device_add_disk+0x1bb/0x4e0
  ? __pm_runtime_use_autosuspend+0x5c/0x70
  sd_probe_async+0x10d/0x1c0
  async_run_entry_fn+0x39/0x170

This is a brute-force fix to pass the devt release information from
sd_probe() to the locations where we register the bdi,
device_add_disk(), and unregister the bdi, blk_cleanup_queue().

Thanks to Omar for the quick reproducer script [2]. This patch survives
where an unmodified kernel fails in a few seconds.

[1]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=147116857810716&w=4
[2]: http://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=148554717109098&w=2

Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Tested-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-02-02 08:23:19 -07:00
Documentation spi: Fixes for v4.10 2017-01-20 12:25:11 -08:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-01-22 12:47:48 -08:00
block scsi, block: fix duplicate bdi name registration crashes 2017-02-02 08:23:19 -07:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input 2016-12-27 17:32:11 +08:00
drivers scsi, block: fix duplicate bdi name registration crashes 2017-02-02 08:23:19 -07:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs block: Get rid of blk_get_backing_dev_info() 2017-02-02 08:21:32 -07:00
include scsi, block: fix duplicate bdi name registration crashes 2017-02-02 08:23:19 -07:00
init cgroup: move CONFIG_SOCK_CGROUP_DATA to init/Kconfig 2017-01-11 09:47:10 -05:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kernel block: introduce blk_rq_is_passthrough 2017-01-31 14:00:34 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'for-4.11/block' into for-4.11/rq-refactor 2017-01-27 15:08:31 -07:00
mm block: Dynamically allocate and refcount backing_dev_info 2017-02-02 08:20:50 -07:00
net Three filesystem endianness fixes (one goes back to the 2.6 era, all 2017-01-20 12:15:48 -08:00
samples Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-01-15 11:37:43 -08:00
scripts gcc-plugins: update gcc-common.h for gcc-7 2017-01-03 12:08:59 -08:00
security Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.10 2017-01-11 19:49:27 +01:00
tools virtio, vhost: fixes, cleanups 2017-01-22 12:40:09 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM/ARM updates for 4.10-rc4 2017-01-17 15:04:59 +01:00
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'for-4.11/block' into for-4.11/rq-refactor 2017-01-27 15:08:31 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.10-rc5 2017-01-22 12:54:15 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.