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Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/19] floppy: use a separate gendisk for each media
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To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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From:   Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
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On 9/3/20 10:01 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The floppy driver usually autodetects the media when used with the
> normal /dev/fd? devices, which also are the only nodes created by udev.
> But it also supports various aliases that force a given media format.
> That is currently supported using the blk_register_region framework
> which finds the floppy gendisk even for a 'mismatched' dev_t.  The
> problem with this (besides the code complexity) is that it creates
> multiple struct block_device instances for the whole device of a
> single gendisk, which can lead to interesting issues in code not
> aware of that fact.
> 
> To fix this just create a separate gendisk for each of the aliases
> if they are accessed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
>   drivers/block/floppy.c | 154 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>   1 file changed, 97 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
> 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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