Re: [57/71] block: rescan partitions on invalidated devices on-ENOMEDIA too

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Greg.

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 2.6.38-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 02e352287a40bd456eb78df705bf888bc3161d3f upstream.
>
> __blkdev_get() doesn't rescan partitions if disk->fops->open() fails,
> which leads to ghost partition devices lingering after medimum removal
> is known to both the kernel and userland.  The behavior also creates a
> subtle inconsistency where O_NONBLOCK open, which doesn't fail even if
> there's no medium, clears the ghots partitions, which is exploited to
> work around the problem from userland.
>
> Fix it by updating __blkdev_get() to issue partition rescan after
> -ENOMEDIA too.
>
> This was reported in the following bz.
>
>  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13029
>
> Stable: 2.6.38
>

Can you please hold this for a while?  It causes an extra warning
message to be printed during device detection.  It isn't harmful but
still.  I'll soon send a patch to resolve the issue and it would be
better for them to go together.

Thank you.

--
tejun
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