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13 June 2022, 11:31:42 UTC
Revision bc6a385132601c29a6da1dbf8148c0d3c9ad36dc authored by Gulam Mohamed on 14 May 2021, 13:18:42 UTC, committed by Jens Axboe on 20 May 2021, 13:59:35 UTC 
block: fix a race between del_gendisk and BLKRRPART
 
When BLKRRPART is called concurrently with del_gendisk, the partitions
rescan can create a stale partition that will never be be cleaned up.

Fix this by checking the the disk is up before rescanning partitions
while under bd_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Gulam Mohamed <gulam.mohamed@oracle.com>
[hch: split from a larger patch]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210514131842.1600568-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Tip revision: bc6a385132601c29a6da1dbf8148c0d3c9ad36dc authored by Gulam Mohamed on 14 May 2021, 13:18:42 UTC
block: fix a race between del_gendisk and BLKRRPART
Tip revision: bc6a385
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