Alexander Graf <[email protected]> writes: > When a file system is mounted on a virtio-blk disk, we then remove it > and then reattach it, the reattached disk gets the same disk name and > ids as the hot removed one. > > This leads to very nasty effects - mostly rendering the newly attached > device completely unusable. > > Trying what happens when I do the same thing with a USB device, I saw > that the sd node simply doesn't get free'd when a device gets forcefully > removed. > > Imitate the same behavior for vd devices. This way broken vd devices > simply are never free'd and newly attached ones keep working just fine. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <[email protected]>
I think deserves a CC:stable, no? I've put it in my pending queue for *next* merge window for now... Thanks, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
