linux-kernel - Re: Kernel crashing on eject SD card

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Date:	Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:26:17 -0800
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	Naveen Goswamy <naveen.goswamy@...ymtl.ca>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel crashing on eject SD card

Hello,

This seems like the right approach to me, but..

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:56:19AM +0900, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote:
> +int invalidate_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
> +{
> +	int res;
> +
> +	res = drop_partitions(disk, bdev);
> +	if (res)
> +		return res;
> +

Hmmm... shouldn't we have set_capacity(disk, 0) here?

> +	check_disk_size_change(disk, bdev);
> +	bdev->bd_invalidated = 0;
> +	/* tell userspace that the media / partition table may have changed */
> +	kobject_uevent(&disk_to_dev(disk)->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE);

Also, we really shouldn't be generating KOBJ_CHANGE after every
-ENOMEDIUM open.  This can easily lead to infinite loop.  We should
generate this iff we actually dropped partitions && modified the size.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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