I think I've got one.  It doesn't always hang the mkfs, but it does
wedge bcache in a few ways.

[  484.322546] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this 
message.
[  484.326230] INFO: task bcache_allocato:32503 blocked for more than 120 
seconds.


1) when it occurs, a backing device never get's released from the kernel, such 
that a blockdev --rereadpt on the device says the device is busy, but examining 
/sys/class/block/<dev>/holders shows nothing

2) attempts to open the device exclusively fail (so things like mkfs or
make-bcache -B).


The reproducer has two virtio disks, vda, vdb; size doesn't really matter, but 
they are 10G and 2G respectively.  /dev/vdb is a cache set (make-bcache -C 
/dev/vdb), /dev/vda2 is the backing device (make-bcache -B /dev/vda2) and then 
they are joined (echo $CSET_UUID > /sys/class/block/vda/vda2/bcache/attach),  
which results in a /dev/bcache0.  Then we mkfs.ext4 it.  

Then we tear it down, wipe the partitions, the disks and repeat.

I'll attach the script.

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