Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] Fix race-condition when reading sysfs attributes.

[Konrad Rzeszutek <konrad virtualiron com>]

> > > There are four uevents sent from the kernel in the creation of
> > > a SysFS representation of the device. After the last event, the
> > > SysFs entries for vendor,model, rev are populated. The window
> > > time between the uevent with /block/sdX sent and the sysfs
> > > attributes being populated is small.
> > 
> > What kernel version are you using? I thought we fixed all that long ago.
> 
> RHEL5.3. Which I thought had many of the fixes from upstream. Let me build
> the most recent version and see if I can trigger these issues on that
> version.

Kay,
You were right. I can't reproduce the failure on the more recent versions
of kernels. Thanks for spotting that.