Re: [PATCH] xen-blkfront: sanitize the removal state machine

[Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/15/21 8:17 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> xen-blkfront has a weird protocol where close message from the remote
> side can be delayed, and where hot removals are treated somewhat
> differently from regular removals, all leading to potential NULL
> pointer removals, and a del_gendisk from the block device release
> method, which will deadlock. Fix this by just performing normal hot
> removals even when the device is opened like all other Linux block
> drivers.

Applied, thanks.

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Jens Axboe