Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.19-rc5-mm1

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:39:46 +0100
"C__dric Augonnet" <cedric.augonnet@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2006/11/9, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>:
> 
> >
> > hm.  Maybe it's the disk_sysfs_symlinks() changes.
> >
> > Could someone who can reproduce this please try this revert, on
> > 2.6.19-rc2-mm2 through 2.6.19-rc5-mm1?
> >
> >
> >
> >  fs/partitions/check.c |    5 +++--
> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff -puN fs/partitions/check.c~revert-fix-ide-cs-hang-after-device-removal fs/partitions/check.c
> > --- a/fs/partitions/check.c~revert-fix-ide-cs-hang-after-device-removal
> > +++ a/fs/partitions/check.c
> > @@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ static char *make_block_name(struct gend
> >
> >  static int disk_sysfs_symlinks(struct gendisk *disk)
> >  {
> > -       struct device *target = disk->driverfs_dev;
> > +       struct device *target = get_device(disk->driverfs_dev);
> >         int err;
> >         char *disk_name = NULL;
> >
> > @@ -452,8 +452,9 @@ err_out_dev_link:
> >                 sysfs_remove_link(&disk->kobj, "device");
> >  err_out_disk_name:
> >                 kfree(disk_name);
> > -       }
> >  err_out:
> > +               put_device(target);
> > +       }
> >         return err;
> >  }
> >
> > _
> >
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> This patch seems to be working : whereas i had the same oops as Mattia
> each time I unplugged my USB external DD drive, now it does not happen
> anymore.
> Thank you very much for this one !
> 

OK, thanks.  I dropped the patch.  So ide-cs will now start deadlocking
again.

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