linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 02/14] floppy: fix add_disk() assumption on exit due to new developments

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Message-Id: <20210927220302.1073499-3-mcgrof@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:02:50 -0700
From:   Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To:     axboe@...nel.dk, efremov@...ux.com, hch@....de
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 02/14] floppy: fix add_disk() assumption on exit due to new developments

After the patch titled "floppy: use blk_mq_alloc_disk and
blk_cleanup_disk" the floppy driver was modified to allocate
the blk_mq_alloc_disk() which allocates the disk with the
queue. This is further clarified later with the patch titled
"block: remove alloc_disk and alloc_disk_node". This clarifies
that:

   Most drivers should use and have been converted to use
   blk_alloc_disk and blk_mq_alloc_disk.  Only the scsi
   ULPs and dasd still allocate a disk separately from the
   request_queue so don't bother with convenience macros for
   something that should not see significant new users and
   remove these wrappers.

And then we have the patch titled, "block: hold a request_queue
reference for the lifetime of struct gendisk" which ensures
that a queue is *always* present for sure during the entire
lifetime of a disk.

In the floppy driver's case then the disk always comes with the
queue. So even if even if the queue was cleaned up on exit, putting
the disk *is* still required, and likewise, blk_cleanup_queue() on
a null queue should not happen now as disk->queue is valid from
disk allocation time on.

Automatic backport code scrapers should hopefully not cherry pick
this patch as a stable fix candidate without full due dilligence to
ensure all the work done on the block layer to make this happen is
merged first.

Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/block/floppy.c | 13 -------------
 1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
index fef79ea52e3e..3e6390fd5f2b 100644
--- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
+++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
@@ -4953,19 +4953,6 @@ static void __exit floppy_module_exit(void)
 				blk_cleanup_queue(disks[drive][i]->queue);
 		}
 		blk_mq_free_tag_set(&tag_sets[drive]);
-
-		/*
-		 * These disks have not called add_disk().  Don't put down
-		 * queue reference in put_disk().
-		 */
-		if (!(allowed_drive_mask & (1 << drive)) ||
-		    fdc_state[FDC(drive)].version == FDC_NONE) {
-			for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(floppy_type); i++) {
-				if (disks[drive][i])
-					disks[drive][i]->queue = NULL;
-			}
-		}
-
 		for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(floppy_type); i++) {
 			if (disks[drive][i])
 				put_disk(disks[drive][i]);
-- 
2.30.2