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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Yufen Yu <yuyufen@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] block: check disk exist before trying to add partition
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 19:39:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9c26b7d0-d234-d92e-0390-c4c872d69f1a@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210610023241.3646241-1-yuyufen@huawei.com>

On 6/9/21 8:32 PM, Yufen Yu wrote:
> If disk have been deleted, we should return fail for ioctl
> BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION. Otherwise, the directory /sys/class/block
> may remain invalid symlinks file. The race as following:
> 
> blkdev_open
> 				del_gendisk
> 				    disk->flags &= ~GENHD_FL_UP;
> 				    blk_drop_partitions
> blkpg_ioctl
>     bdev_add_partition
>     add_partition
>         device_add
> 	    device_add_class_symlinks
> 
> ioctl may add_partition after del_gendisk() have tried to delete
> partitions. Then, symlinks file will be created.

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-01  1:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-10  2:32 [PATCH v2] block: check disk exist before trying to add partition Yufen Yu
2021-06-29  8:47 ` Yufen Yu
2021-07-01  1:39 ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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