Re: [dm-devel] frozen mapped devices

[christophe varoqui <christophe varoqui free fr>]

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 11:26 -0500, goggin, edward wrote:
> Looks like domap() in multipath/main.c is not resuming a mapped device
> before removing the
> device in the event of an error returned from dm_addmap().  This results in
> leaving the kernel
> block_device structure for the mapped device remaining "frozen", so that
> subsequent
> attempts to reload corrected configuration data hang on the bd_mount_sem of
> the block_device
> since the instance of the mapped device structure holding the DMF_FS_LOCKED
> flag bit
> had been destroyed.
> 
Indeed, this code is unsafe.

The fix is amazingly simple, as the suspend / resume cycle is not even
necessary.

I removed it for the next release.

regards,
-- 
christophe varoqui <christophe varoqui free fr>