Re: Subject: [PATCH] block: fix __blkdev_get() for removabledevices

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 01:16:07PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Commit 0762b8bde9729f10f8e6249809660ff2ec3ad735 moved disk_get_part()
> in front of recursive get on the whole disk, which caused removable
> devices to try disk_get_part() before rescanning after a new media is
> inserted, which might fail legit open attempts or give the old
> partition.
> 
> This patch fixes the problem by moving disk_get_part() after
> __blkdev_get() on the whole disk.
> 
> This problem was spotted by Borislav Petkov.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <Borislav Petkov> petkovbb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> Borislav, can you please verify this patch?  Thanks.

Yep, it works. Thanks.

Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@xxxxxxxxx>

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.
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