Re: [PATCH v2] fs/block_dev.c: Remove WARN_ON() when inode writeback fails

[Jens Axboe]

On 10/30/2015 09:34 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If a block device is hot removed and later last reference to device
> 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.

Any concerns with putting this into 4.4 and marking it for stable? Would 
be awesome to have a "Fixes:" in here too.

--
Jens Axboe

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