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Jun'ichi Nomura authored
commit fe316bf2 upstream.

Since 2.6.39 (1196f8b8), when a driver returns -ENOMEDIUM for open(),
__blkdev_get() calls rescan_partitions() to remove
in-kernel partition structures and raise KOBJ_CHANGE uevent.

However it ends up calling driver's revalidate_disk without open
and could cause oops.

In the case of SCSI:

  process A                  process B
  ----------------------------------------------
  sys_open
    __blkdev_get
      sd_open
        returns -ENOMEDIUM
                             scsi_remove_device
                               <scsi_device torn down>
      rescan_partitions
        sd_revalidate_disk
          <oops>
Oopses are reported here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=132388619710052



This patch separates the partition invalidation from rescan_partitions()
and use it for -ENOMEDIUM case.

Reported-by: default avatarHuajun Li <huajun.li.lee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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