linux-kernel - [PATCH 15/20] cciss: Don't check h->busy_initializing in cciss

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Message-ID: <20090917184805.15105.58449.stgit@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:48:05 -0500
From:	"Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, axboe@...nel.dk
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	andrew.patterson@...com, mikem@...rdog.cce.hp.com,
	scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com
Subject: [PATCH 15/20] cciss: Don't check h->busy_initializing in cciss_open().

Don't check h->busy_initializing in cciss_open().  Open won't be
called before things are ready, but h->busy_initializing won't be
unset until after the initial rebuild_lun_table is finished.  But,
to read the partitions, cciss_open will be called for each logical
drive during rebuild_lun_table.  If cciss_open checks h->busy_initializing,
then the reading of the partition information during the initial
rebuild_lun_table will fail, which is especially bad news if it
happens to be your boot device.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>
---

 drivers/block/cciss.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
index 56eeb68..0ff665e 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ static int cciss_open(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode)
 	printk(KERN_DEBUG "cciss_open %s\n", bdev->bd_disk->disk_name);
 #endif				/* CCISS_DEBUG */
 
-	if (host->busy_initializing || drv->busy_configuring)
+	if (drv->busy_configuring)
 		return -EBUSY;
 	/*
 	 * Root is allowed to open raw volume zero even if it's not configured

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