2018-05-10 00:53:40

by Ming Lei

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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] block: fix race between opening blkext device and freeing it

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Roman Penyaev
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, Jens.
>
> Could you please take a look at this patch.
> This issue happens quite often on our servers, when udevd
> tries to get detailed info about md raid starting mdadm,
> but this raid device is already in closing state and is
> about to free internal structures, afterwards an oops
> happens and mdadm gets killed.

Looks the issue is still there, so could we consider Roman's approach
for this issue?

Thanks,
Ming Lei