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

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Message-ID: <f56c1ba00611091539n1d1cbe99obdb1c5f608646c96@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:39:46 +0100
From:	"Cédric Augonnet" <cedric.augonnet@...il.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	"Alan Stern" <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	"Benoit Boissinot" <bboissin@...il.com>,
	"Mattia Dongili" <malattia@...ux.it>,
	"USB development list" <linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	"Kernel development list" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"SCSI development list" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.19-rc5-mm1

2006/11/9, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.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 !

Best regards,
Cédric
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