Alexander Graf <[email protected]> writes:

> On 20.12.2012, at 09:46, Asias He <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 12/20/2012 12:15 PM, Rusty Russell wrote:
>>> 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 wanted to make sure people can comment on it first. But yes, it should go 
> into stable when accepted.

Queued in my fixes branch, will go to Linus soon.

Thanks,
Rusty.
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