linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] fs/block_dev.c: Remove WARN

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Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2015 17:45:27 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Cc:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, tj@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs/block_dev.c: Remove WARN_ON() when inode writeback
 fails

On 10/30/2015 09:34 AM, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
>
> If a block device is hot removed and later last reference to device
> is put, we try to writeback the dirty inode. But device is gone and
> that writeback fails.
>
> Currently we do a WARN_ON() which does not seem to be the right thing.
> Convert it to a ratelimited kernel warning.

Any concerns with putting this into 4.4 and marking it for stable? Would 
be awesome to have a "Fixes:" in here too.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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