Re: [PATCH 1/2] cdrom: always check_disk_change() on open

From: Amit Shah
Date: Tue May 10 2011 - 02:43:06 EST


On (Fri) 29 Apr 2011 [10:15:50], Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2011-04-29 08:57, Amit Shah wrote:
> > On (Wed) 06 Apr 2011 [05:20:09], Tejun Heo wrote:
> >> cdrom_open() called check_disk_change() after the rest of open path
> >> succeeded which leads to the following bizarre behavior.
> >>
> >> * After media change, if the device opened without O_NONBLOCK,
> >> open_for_data() naturally fails with -ENOMEDIA and
> >> check_disk_change() is never called. The media is known to be gone
> >> and the open failure makes it obvious to the userland but device
> >> invalidation never happens.
> >>
> >> * But if the device is opened with O_NONBLOCK, all the checks are
> >> bypassed and cdrom_open() doesn't notice that the media is not there
> >> and check_disk_change() is called and invalidation happens.
> >>
> >> There's nothing to be gained by avoiding calling check_disk_change()
> >> on open failure. Common cases end up calling check_disk_change()
> >> anyway. All we get is inconsistent behavior.
> >>
> >> Fix it by moving check_disk_change() invocation to the top of
> >> cdrom_open() so that it always gets called regardless of how the rest
> >> of open proceeds.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Tested-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Ping?
> >
> > Also, please mark this for stable-2.6.38.
>
> Done, added for 2.6.39 and marked stable for 2.6.38.

Ping again. Don't see this yet in Linus's git tree.

Amit
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