Re: WARNING: at fs/block_dev.c:5 when removing LV on removed device

From: Vivek Goyal
Date: Mon Jun 22 2015 - 13:55:53 EST


On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 01:52:55PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 01:46:48PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > Subject: fs/block_dev.c: Warn on inode writeback failure instead of WARN_ON()
> >
> > If a block device is hot removed and later last reference to devices
> > is put, we try to writeback the dirty inode. But device is gone and
> > that writeback fails.
> >
> > Currently we do a WARN_ON() which does not seem to be the right thing.
> > Convert it to a ratelimited kernel warning.
>
> Yeah, looks good to me. Just one nit.
>
> ...
> > + if (write_inode_now(inode, true)) {
> > + char name[BDEVNAME_SIZE] = "";
> > + pr_warn_ratelimited("VFS: Dirty inode writeback failed for block device %s.\n", bdevname(bdev, name));
>
> This wasn't reported before either but maybe we wanna report the errno
> too? Also, don't we usually break the line for parameters?
>
> pr_..("long format string going over 80 col...\n",
> param0, param1, ...);

Hi Tejun,

Will do. I have been doing some go programming in docker recently and this
has been a side effect of that. :-) Will format it correctly.

Thanks
Vivek
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