From: goggin, edward Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 04:45:44 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] device-mapper: Trigger an event when a table is deleted X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc3~80 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=269fd2a6f84828fd96218d164dace8c413fa5c03;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git [PATCH] device-mapper: Trigger an event when a table is deleted If anything is waiting on a device's table when the device is removed, we must first wake it up so it will release its reference. Otherwise the table's reference count will not drop to zero and the table will not get removed. Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c index 200a0688f71..54ec737195e 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c @@ -230,11 +230,20 @@ static int dm_hash_insert(const char *name, const char *uuid, struct mapped_devi static void __hash_remove(struct hash_cell *hc) { + struct dm_table *table; + /* remove from the dev hash */ list_del(&hc->uuid_list); list_del(&hc->name_list); unregister_with_devfs(hc); dm_set_mdptr(hc->md, NULL); + + table = dm_get_table(hc->md); + if (table) { + dm_table_event(table); + dm_table_put(table); + } + dm_put(hc->md); if (hc->new_map) dm_table_put(hc->new_map);