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Message-Id: <201008060632.o766W8Ao020084@demeter.kernel.org>
Date:	Fri, 6 Aug 2010 06:32:08 GMT
From:	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [Bug 16312] WARNING: at fs/fs-writeback.c:1127 __mark_inode_dirty

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16312


Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> changed:

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--- Comment #25 from Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>  2010-08-06 06:32:03 ---
(In reply to comment #23)
> Well, my naive opinion rather is that userspace shouldn't be able to access a
> device node which isn't fully set up. That could have unexpected pitfalls for
> the process and the kernel as well, couldn't it?

But device nodes can be created for any device number whether the device exists
or not.  The patch makes sd announce it later so at least udev doesn't try to
access it earlier but unless I'm misunderstanding something userspace still can
trigger these warnings easily.

Thansk.

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