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The block layer keeps a reference (driverfs_dev) to the struct device associated with the block device, and uses it internally for generating uevents in block_uevent. Block device uevents include umounting the partition, which can occur after the backing device has been removed. Unfortunately, this reference is not counted. This means that if the struct device is removed from the device tree, the block layers reference will become stale. Guard against this by holding a reference to the struct device in add_disk(), and only drop the reference when we're releasing the gendisk kobject - in other words when we can be sure that no further uevents will be generated for this block device. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> |
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| as-iosched.c | ||
| blktrace.c | ||
| cfq-iosched.c | ||
| deadline-iosched.c | ||
| elevator.c | ||
| genhd.c | ||
| ioctl.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Kconfig.iosched | ||
| ll_rw_blk.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| noop-iosched.c | ||
| scsi_ioctl.c | ||