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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: fix locking for struct block_device size
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To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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        Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
        Xianting Tian <xianting_tian@126.com>,
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From:   Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
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Date:   Fri, 21 Aug 2020 11:26:19 +0200
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On 8/21/20 10:56 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Two different callers use two different mutexes for updating the
> block device size, which obviously doesn't help to actually protect
> against concurrent updates from the different callers.  In addition
> one of the locks, bd_mutex is rather prone to deadlocks with other
> parts of the block stack that use it for high level synchronization.
> 
> Switch to using a new spinlock protecting just the size updates, as
> that is all we need, and make sure everyone does the update through
> the proper helper.
> 
> This fixeѕ a bug reported with the nvme revalidating disks during a
> hot removal operation.
> 
> Reported-by: Xianting Tian <xianting_tian@126.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
>  block/partitions/core.c         |  4 ++--
>  drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c      |  4 +---
>  drivers/md/dm.c                 | 15 ++-------------
>  drivers/s390/block/dasd_ioctl.c |  9 ++-------
>  fs/block_dev.c                  | 18 +++++++++---------
>  include/linux/blk_types.h       |  1 +
>  6 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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