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Discarding blocks and buffers under a mounted filesystem is hardly anything admin wants to do. Usually it will confuse the filesystem and sometimes the loss of buffer_head state (including b_private field) can even cause crashes like: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP PTI CPU: 4 PID: 203778 Comm: jbd2/dm-3-8 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G O --------- - - 4.18.0-147.5.0.5.h126.eulerosv2r9.x86_64 #1 Hardware name: Huawei RH2288H V3/BC11HGSA0, BIOS 1.57 08/11/2015 RIP: 0010:jbd2_journal_grab_journal_head+0x1b/0x40 [jbd2] ... Call Trace: __jbd2_journal_insert_checkpoint+0x23/0x70 [jbd2] jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x155f/0x1b60 [jbd2] kjournald2+0xbd/0x270 [jbd2] So if we don't have block device open with O_EXCL already, claim the block device while we truncate buffer cache. This makes sure any exclusive block device user (such as filesystem) cannot operate on the device while we are discarding buffer cache. Reported-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> [axboe: fix !CONFIG_BLOCK error in truncate_bdev_range()] Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.