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The existing code allows changing the data device when the thin-pool target is reloaded. This capability is not required and only complicates device lifetime guarantees. This can cause crashes like the one reported here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1788596 where the kernel tries to issue a flush bio located in a structure that was already freed. Take the first step to simplifying the thin-pool's data device lifetime by disallowing changing it. Like the thin-pool's metadata device, the data device is now set in pool_create() and it cannot be changed for a given thin-pool. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
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.