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Date:	Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:15:52 -0800
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] block: fix __blkdev_get and add_disk race condition

Hello,

Nice catch.

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 06:26:13PM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> As drawback, I do not teardown on sysfs file create error, because I do
> not know how to nullify disk->ev (since it can be used).

add_disk() error handling is mostly non-existent and the error
behavior should be acceptable (no sysfs files created but everything
else behaves the same).

> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Thank you.

-- 
tejun
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