Re: [PATCH 1/2] cdrom: always check_disk_change() on open

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Fri Apr 29 2011 - 04:15:59 EST


On 2011-04-29 08:57, Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Wed) 06 Apr 2011 [05:20:09], Tejun Heo wrote:
>> cdrom_open() called check_disk_change() after the rest of open path
>> succeeded which leads to the following bizarre behavior.
>>
>> * After media change, if the device opened without O_NONBLOCK,
>> open_for_data() naturally fails with -ENOMEDIA and
>> check_disk_change() is never called. The media is known to be gone
>> and the open failure makes it obvious to the userland but device
>> invalidation never happens.
>>
>> * But if the device is opened with O_NONBLOCK, all the checks are
>> bypassed and cdrom_open() doesn't notice that the media is not there
>> and check_disk_change() is called and invalidation happens.
>>
>> There's nothing to be gained by avoiding calling check_disk_change()
>> on open failure. Common cases end up calling check_disk_change()
>> anyway. All we get is inconsistent behavior.
>>
>> Fix it by moving check_disk_change() invocation to the top of
>> cdrom_open() so that it always gets called regardless of how the rest
>> of open proceeds.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Ping?
>
> Also, please mark this for stable-2.6.38.

Done, added for 2.6.39 and marked stable for 2.6.38.

--
Jens Axboe

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