Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] bdev: add open_finish.

From: Michal Suchánek
Date: Thu Oct 24 2019 - 04:55:20 EST


On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 07:22:32PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 02:52:45PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > Opening a block device may require a long operation such as waiting for
> > the cdrom tray to close. Performing this operation with locks held locks
> > out other attempts to open the device. These processes waiting to open
> > the device are not killable.
> >
> > To avoid this issue and still be able to perform time-consuming checks
> > at open() time the block device driver can provide open_finish(). If it
> > does opening the device proceeds even when an error is returned from
> > open(), bd_mutex is released and open_finish() is called. If
> > open_finish() succeeds the device is now open, if it fails release() is
> > called.
> >
> > When -ERESTARTSYS is returned from open() blkdev_get may loop without
> > calling open_finish(). On -ERESTARTSYS open_finish() is not called.
> >
> > Move a ret = 0 assignment up in the if/else branching to avoid returning
> > -ENXIO. Previously the return value was ignored on the unhandled branch.
>
> This just doesn't make much sense. There is no point in messing up
> the block API for ugly workarounds like that.

If you have ideas how to do this better then share them.

Thanks

Michal