On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 03:37:50PM +0300, Anton Volkov wrote: > The early device registration made possible a race leading to allocations > of disks with wrong minors. > > This patch moves the device registration further down the loop_init > function to make the race infeasible. > > Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). > > Signed-off-by: Anton Volkov <avol...@ispras.ru> > Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming....@redhat.com>
Hi, Anton, Were you able to reproduce this issue or was it purely theoretical? If the former, it'd be nice if you could add a test case to blktests [1]. 1: https://github.com/osandov/blktests Thanks! Omar
