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

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2015 14:41:18 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>,
	dm-devel@...hat.com, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fs/block_dev.c: Remove WARN_ON() when inode writeback fails

If a block device is hot removed and later last reference to devices
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.

Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
---
 fs/block_dev.c |   14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: rhvgoyal-linux/fs/block_dev.c
===================================================================
--- rhvgoyal-linux.orig/fs/block_dev.c	2015-06-18 15:54:52.339383237 -0400
+++ rhvgoyal-linux/fs/block_dev.c	2015-06-22 14:32:29.112594493 -0400
@@ -48,12 +48,20 @@ inline struct block_device *I_BDEV(struc
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(I_BDEV);
 
-static void bdev_write_inode(struct inode *inode)
+static void bdev_write_inode(struct block_device *bdev)
 {
+	struct inode *inode = bdev->bd_inode;
+	int ret;
+
 	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 	while (inode->i_state & I_DIRTY) {
 		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(write_inode_now(inode, true));
+		ret = write_inode_now(inode, true);
+		if (ret) {
+			char name[BDEVNAME_SIZE] = "";
+			pr_warn_ratelimited("VFS: Dirty inode writeback failed for block device %s (err= %d).\n",
+					    bdevname(bdev, name), ret);
+		}
 		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
@@ -1489,7 +1497,7 @@ static void __blkdev_put(struct block_de
 		 * ->release can cause the queue to disappear, so flush all
 		 * dirty data before.
 		 */
-		bdev_write_inode(bdev->bd_inode);
+		bdev_write_inode(bdev);
 	}
 	if (bdev->bd_contains == bdev) {
 		if (disk->fops->release)
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