Re: [PATCH 1/1] block: rework flush sequencing for blk-mq

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Mar 14 2014 - 06:59:17 EST


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:52:55AM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> No, I haven't. This issue is only exhibited if you try to run
> multipath on a non-SCSI device (in this case it was cciss).
> But then that project got abandoned, and there never was a machine
> with a multipathed cciss controller.

We still shouldn't be able to easily crash the kernel because someone
configured the wrong device. And with scsi-mq that wrong devices case
might become a lot more common..

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