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2012-03-20squashfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20reiserfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20ocfs2: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20ntfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20nilfs2: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20nfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20minix: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20logfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20jbd2: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20jbd: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20gfs2: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20fuse: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20ext2: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20exofs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Ack-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20afs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20btrfs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-20fs: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic()Cong Wang
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
2012-03-18Don't limit non-nested epoll pathsJason Baron
Commit 28d82dc1c4ed ("epoll: limit paths") that I did to limit the number of possible wakeup paths in epoll is causing a few applications to longer work (dovecot for one). The original patch is really about limiting the amount of epoll nesting (since epoll fds can be attached to other fds). Thus, we probably can allow an unlimited number of paths of depth 1. My current patch limits it at 1000. And enforce the limits on paths that have a greater depth. This is captured in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681578 Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-17Merge branch 'akpm' (more patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge some more email patches from Andrew Morton: "A couple of nilfs fixes" * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: nilfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in nilfs_load_super_block() nilfs2: clamp ns_r_segments_percentage to [1, 99]
2012-03-17nilfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference in nilfs_load_super_block()Ryusuke Konishi
According to the report from Slicky Devil, nilfs caused kernel oops at nilfs_load_super_block function during mount after he shrank the partition without resizing the filesystem: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000048 IP: [<d0d7a08e>] nilfs_load_super_block+0x17e/0x280 [nilfs2] *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ... Call Trace: [<d0d7a87b>] init_nilfs+0x4b/0x2e0 [nilfs2] [<d0d6f707>] nilfs_mount+0x447/0x5b0 [nilfs2] [<c0226636>] mount_fs+0x36/0x180 [<c023d961>] vfs_kern_mount+0x51/0xa0 [<c023ddae>] do_kern_mount+0x3e/0xe0 [<c023f189>] do_mount+0x169/0x700 [<c023fa9b>] sys_mount+0x6b/0xa0 [<c04abd1f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 Code: 53 18 8b 43 20 89 4b 18 8b 4b 24 89 53 1c 89 43 24 89 4b 20 8b 43 20 c7 43 2c 00 00 00 00 23 75 e8 8b 50 68 89 53 28 8b 54 b3 20 <8b> 72 48 8b 7a 4c 8b 55 08 89 b3 84 00 00 00 89 bb 88 00 00 00 EIP: [<d0d7a08e>] nilfs_load_super_block+0x17e/0x280 [nilfs2] SS:ESP 0068:ca9bbdcc CR2: 0000000000000048 This turned out due to a defect in an error path which runs if the calculated location of the secondary super block was invalid. This patch fixes it and eliminates the reported oops. Reported-by: Slicky Devil <slicky.dvl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Tested-by: Slicky Devil <slicky.dvl@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.30+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-17nilfs2: clamp ns_r_segments_percentage to [1, 99]Haogang Chen
ns_r_segments_percentage is read from the disk. Bogus or malicious value could cause integer overflow and malfunction due to meaningless disk usage calculation. This patch reports error when mounting such bogus volumes. Signed-off-by: Haogang Chen <haogangchen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-17afs: Remote abort can cause BUG in rxrpc codeAnton Blanchard
When writing files to afs I sometimes hit a BUG: kernel BUG at fs/afs/rxrpc.c:179! With a backtrace of: afs_free_call afs_make_call afs_fs_store_data afs_vnode_store_data afs_write_back_from_locked_page afs_writepages_region afs_writepages The cause is: ASSERT(skb_queue_empty(&call->rx_queue)); Looking at a tcpdump of the session the abort happens because we are exceeding our disk quota: rx abort fs reply store-data error diskquota exceeded (32) So the abort error is valid. We hit the BUG because we haven't freed all the resources for the call. By freeing any skbs in call->rx_queue before calling afs_free_call we avoid hitting leaking memory and avoid hitting the BUG. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-17afs: Read of file returns EBADMSGAnton Blanchard
A read of a large file on an afs mount failed: # cat junk.file > /dev/null cat: junk.file: Bad message Looking at the trace, call->offset wrapped since it is only an unsigned short. In afs_extract_data: _enter("{%u},{%zu},%d,,%zu", call->offset, len, last, count); ... if (call->offset < count) { if (last) { _leave(" = -EBADMSG [%d < %zu]", call->offset, count); return -EBADMSG; } Which matches the trace: [cat ] ==> afs_extract_data({65132},{524},1,,65536) [cat ] <== afs_extract_data() = -EBADMSG [0 < 65536] call->offset went from 65132 to 0. Fix this by making call->offset an unsigned int. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe: "Been sitting on this for a while, but lets get this out the door. This fixes various important bugs for 3.3 final, along with a few more trivial ones. Please pull!" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block: fix ioc leak in put_io_context block, sx8: fix pointer math issue getting fw version Block: use a freezable workqueue for disk-event polling drivers/block/DAC960: fix -Wuninitialized warning drivers/block/DAC960: fix DAC960_V2_IOCTL_Opcode_T -Wenum-compare warning block: fix __blkdev_get and add_disk race condition block: Fix setting bio flags in drivers (sd_dif/floppy) block: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sd_revalidate_disk block: exit_io_context() should call elevator_exit_icq_fn() block: simplify ioc_release_fn() block: replace icq->changed with icq->flags
2012-03-14Merge git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds
Pull CIFS fixes from Steve French. * git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: CIFS: Do not kmalloc under the flocks spinlock cifs: possible memory leak in xattr.
2012-03-10restore smp_mb() in unlock_new_inode()Al Viro
wait_on_inode() doesn't have ->i_lock Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-10vfs: fix return value from do_last()Miklos Szeredi
complete_walk() returns either ECHILD or ESTALE. do_last() turns this into ECHILD unconditionally. If not in RCU mode, this error will reach userspace which is complete nonsense. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-10vfs: fix double put after complete_walk()Miklos Szeredi
complete_walk() already puts nd->path, no need to do it again at cleanup time. This would result in Oopses if triggered, apparently the codepath is not too well exercised. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-10udf: Fix deadlock in udf_release_file()Jan Kara
udf_release_file() can be called from munmap() path with mmap_sem held. Thus we cannot take i_mutex there because that ranks above mmap_sem. Luckily, i_mutex is not needed in udf_release_file() anymore since protection by i_data_sem is enough to protect from races with write and truncate. Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-10vfs: Correctly set the dir i_mutex lockdep classTyler Hicks
9a7aa12f3911853a introduced additional logic around setting the i_mutex lockdep class for directory inodes. The idea was that some filesystems may want their own special lockdep class for different directory inodes and calling unlock_new_inode() should not clobber one of those special classes. I believe that the added conditional, around the *negated* return value of lockdep_match_class(), caused directory inodes to be placed in the wrong lockdep class. inode_init_always() sets the i_mutex lockdep class with i_mutex_key for all inodes. If the filesystem did not change the class during inode initialization, then the conditional mentioned above was false and the directory inode was incorrectly left in the non-directory lockdep class. If the filesystem did set a special lockdep class, then the conditional mentioned above was true and that class was clobbered with i_mutex_dir_key. This patch removes the negation from the conditional so that the i_mutex lockdep class is properly set for directory inodes. Special classes are preserved and directory inodes with unmodified classes are set with i_mutex_dir_key. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-03-10aio: fix the "too late munmap()" raceAl Viro
Current code has put_ioctx() called asynchronously from aio_fput_routine(); that's done *after* we have killed the request that used to pin ioctx, so there's nothing to stop io_destroy() waiting in wait_for_all_aios() from progressing. As the result, we can end up with async call of put_ioctx() being the last one and possibly happening during exit_mmap() or elf_core_dump(), neither of which expects stray munmap() being done to them... We do need to prevent _freeing_ ioctx until aio_fput_routine() is done with that, but that's all we care about - neither io_destroy() nor exit_aio() will progress past wait_for_all_aios() until aio_fput_routine() does really_put_req(), so the ioctx teardown won't be done until then and we don't care about the contents of ioctx past that point. Since actual freeing of these suckers is RCU-delayed, we don't need to bump ioctx refcount when request goes into list for async removal. All we need is rcu_read_lock held just over the ->ctx_lock-protected area in aio_fput_routine(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-10aio: fix io_setup/io_destroy raceAl Viro
Have ioctx_alloc() return an extra reference, so that caller would drop it on success and not bother with re-grabbing it on failure exit. The current code is obviously broken - io_destroy() from another thread that managed to guess the address io_setup() would've returned would free ioctx right under us; gets especially interesting if aio_context_t * we pass to io_setup() points to PROT_READ mapping, so put_user() fails and we end up doing io_destroy() on kioctx another thread has just got freed... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs Pull btrfs updates from Chris Mason: "I have two additional and btrfs fixes in my for-linus branch. One is a casting error that leads to memory corruption on i386 during scrub, and the other fixes a corner case in the backref walking code (also triggered by scrub)." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs: Btrfs: fix casting error in scrub reada code btrfs: fix locking issues in find_parent_nodes()
2012-03-07CIFS: Do not kmalloc under the flocks spinlockPavel Shilovsky
Reorganize the code to make the memory already allocated before spinlock'ed loop. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2012-03-07cifs: possible memory leak in xattr.Santosh Nayak
Memory is allocated irrespective of whether CIFS_ACL is configured or not. But free is happenning only if CIFS_ACL is set. This is a possible memory leak scenario. Fix is: Allocate and free memory only if CIFS_ACL is configured. Signed-off-by: Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2012-03-07Merge git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds
Pull CIFS fixes from Steve French * git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: cifs: fix dentry refcount leak when opening a FIFO on lookup CIFS: Fix mkdir/rmdir bug for the non-POSIX case
2012-03-05Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch bomb)Linus Torvalds
Merge the emailed seties of 19 patches from Andrew Morton * akpm: rapidio/tsi721: fix queue wrapping bug in inbound doorbell handler memcg: fix mapcount check in move charge code for anonymous page mm: thp: fix BUG on mm->nr_ptes alpha: fix 32/64-bit bug in futex support memcg: fix GPF when cgroup removal races with last exit debugobjects: Fix selftest for static warnings floppy/scsi: fix setting of BIO flags memcg: fix deadlock by inverting lrucare nesting drivers/rtc/rtc-r9701.c: fix crash in r9701_remove() c2port: class_create() returns an ERR_PTR pps: class_create() returns an ERR_PTR, not NULL hung_task: fix the broken rcu_lock_break() logic vfork: kill PF_STARTING coredump_wait: don't call complete_vfork_done() vfork: make it killable vfork: introduce complete_vfork_done() aio: wake up waiters when freeing unused kiocbs kprobes: return proper error code from register_kprobe() kmsg_dump: don't run on non-error paths by default
2012-03-05coredump_wait: don't call complete_vfork_done()Oleg Nesterov
Now that CLONE_VFORK is killable, coredump_wait() no longer needs complete_vfork_done(). zap_threads() should find and kill all tasks with the same ->mm, this includes our parent if ->vfork_done is set. mm_release() becomes the only caller, unexport complete_vfork_done(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05vfork: introduce complete_vfork_done()Oleg Nesterov
No functional changes. Move the clear-and-complete-vfork_done code into the new trivial helper, complete_vfork_done(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05aio: wake up waiters when freeing unused kiocbsJeff Moyer
Bart Van Assche reported a hung fio process when either hot-removing storage or when interrupting the fio process itself. The (pruned) call trace for the latter looks like so: fio D 0000000000000001 0 6849 6848 0x00000004 ffff880092541b88 0000000000000046 ffff880000000000 ffff88012fa11dc0 ffff88012404be70 ffff880092541fd8 ffff880092541fd8 ffff880092541fd8 ffff880128b894d0 ffff88012404be70 ffff880092541b88 000000018106f24d Call Trace: schedule+0x3f/0x60 io_schedule+0x8f/0xd0 wait_for_all_aios+0xc0/0x100 exit_aio+0x55/0xc0 mmput+0x2d/0x110 exit_mm+0x10d/0x130 do_exit+0x671/0x860 do_group_exit+0x44/0xb0 get_signal_to_deliver+0x218/0x5a0 do_signal+0x65/0x700 do_notify_resume+0x65/0x80 int_signal+0x12/0x17 The problem lies with the allocation batching code. It will opportunistically allocate kiocbs, and then trim back the list of iocbs when there is not enough room in the completion ring to hold all of the events. In the case above, what happens is that the pruning back of events ends up freeing up the last active request and the context is marked as dead, so it is thus responsible for waking up waiters. Unfortunately, the code does not check for this condition, so we end up with a hung task. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Tested-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [3.2.x only] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-05aout: move setup_arg_pages() prior to reading/mapping the binaryAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-04vfs: move dentry_cmp from <linux/dcache.h> to fs/dcache.cLinus Torvalds
It's only used inside fs/dcache.c, and we're going to play games with it for the word-at-a-time patches. This time we really don't even want to export it, because it really is an internal function to fs/dcache.c, and has been since it was introduced. Having it in that extremely hot header file (it's included in pretty much everything, thanks to <linux/fs.h>) is a disaster for testing different versions, and is utterly pointless. We really should have some kind of header file diet thing, where we figure out which parts of header files are really better off private and only result in more expensive compiles. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-03Btrfs: fix casting error in scrub reada codeChris Mason
The reada code from scrub was casting down a u64 to an unsigned long so it could insert it into a radix tree. What it really wanted to do was cast down the result of a shift, instead of casting down the u64. The bug resulted in trying to insert our reada struct into the wrong place, which caused soft lockups and other problems. Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2012-03-03btrfs: fix locking issues in find_parent_nodes()Li Zefan
- We might unlock head->mutex while it was not locked - We might leave the function without unlocking delayed_refs->lock Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2012-03-03vfs: export full_name_hash() function to modulesLinus Torvalds
Commit 5707c87f "vfs: uninline full_name_hash()" broke the modular build, because it needs exporting now that it isn't inlined any more. Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-02vfs: split up name hashing in link_path_walk() into helper functionLinus Torvalds
The code in link_path_walk() that finds out the length and the hash of the next path component is some of the hottest code in the kernel. And I have a version of it that does things at the full width of the CPU wordsize at a time, but that means that we *really* want to split it up into a separate helper function. So this re-organizes the code a bit and splits the hashing part into a helper function called "hash_name()". It returns the length of the pathname component, while at the same time computing and writing the hash to the appropriate location. The code generation is slightly changed by this patch, but generally for the better - and the added abstraction actually makes the code easier to read too. And the new interface is well suited for replacing just the "hash_name()" function with alternative implementations. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-02vfs: uninline full_name_hash()Linus Torvalds
.. and also use it in lookup_one_len() rather than open-coding it. There aren't any performance-critical users, so inlining it is silly. But it wouldn't matter if it wasn't for the fact that the word-at-a-time dentry name patches want to conditionally replace the function, and uninlining it sets the stage for that. So again, this is a preparatory patch that doesn't change any semantics, and only prepares for a much cleaner and testable word-at-a-time dentry name accessor patch. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-02vfs: trivial __d_lookup_rcu() cleanupsLinus Torvalds
These don't change any semantics, but they clean up the code a bit and mark some arguments appropriately 'const'. They came up as I was doing the word-at-a-time dcache name accessor code, and cleaning this up now allows me to send out a smaller relevant interesting patch for the experimental stuff. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-02regset: Prevent null pointer reference on readonly regsetsH. Peter Anvin
The regset common infrastructure assumed that regsets would always have .get and .set methods, but not necessarily .active methods. Unfortunately people have since written regsets without .set methods. Rather than putting in stub functions everywhere, handle regsets with null .get or .set methods explicitly. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-02block: Fix NULL pointer dereference in sd_revalidate_diskJun'ichi Nomura
Since 2.6.39 (1196f8b), when a driver returns -ENOMEDIUM for open(), __blkdev_get() calls rescan_partitions() to remove in-kernel partition structures and raise KOBJ_CHANGE uevent. However it ends up calling driver's revalidate_disk without open and could cause oops. In the case of SCSI: process A process B ---------------------------------------------- sys_open __blkdev_get sd_open returns -ENOMEDIUM scsi_remove_device <scsi_device torn down> rescan_partitions sd_revalidate_disk <oops> Oopses are reported here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=132388619710052 This patch separates the partition invalidation from rescan_partitions() and use it for -ENOMEDIUM case. Reported-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li.lee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>