From c01228db4ba965986511a5b28c478bddd7e2726e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 17:48:34 +0100 Subject: Revert "scsi, block: fix duplicate bdi name registration crashes" This reverts commit 0dba1314d4f81115dce711292ec7981d17231064. It causes leaking of device numbers for SCSI when SCSI registers multiple gendisks for one request_queue in succession. It can be easily reproduced using Omar's script [1] on kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE. Furthermore the protection provided by this commit is not needed anymore as the problem it was fixing got also fixed by commit 165a5e22fafb "block: Move bdi_unregister() to del_gendisk()". [1]: http://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=148554717109098&w=2 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Dan Williams Tested-by: Omar Sandoval Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/genhd.c | 21 --------------------- 1 file changed, 21 deletions(-) (limited to 'block/genhd.c') diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 94f323842b527..a9c516a8b37db 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -572,20 +572,6 @@ exit: disk_part_iter_exit(&piter); } -void put_disk_devt(struct disk_devt *disk_devt) -{ - if (disk_devt && atomic_dec_and_test(&disk_devt->count)) - disk_devt->release(disk_devt); -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_disk_devt); - -void get_disk_devt(struct disk_devt *disk_devt) -{ - if (disk_devt) - atomic_inc(&disk_devt->count); -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_disk_devt); - /** * device_add_disk - add partitioning information to kernel list * @parent: parent device for the disk @@ -626,13 +612,6 @@ void device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk) disk_alloc_events(disk); - /* - * Take a reference on the devt and assign it to queue since it - * must not be reallocated while the bdi is registered - */ - disk->queue->disk_devt = disk->disk_devt; - get_disk_devt(disk->disk_devt); - /* Register BDI before referencing it from bdev */ bdi = disk->queue->backing_dev_info; bdi_register_owner(bdi, disk_to_dev(disk)); -- cgit v1.2.3