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Hannes Reinecke 5a5095ac9e dm: avoid filesystem lookup in dm_get_dev_t() ...

commit 809b1e4945 upstream.

This reverts commit
644bda6f34 ("dm table: fall back to getting device using name_to_dev_t()")

dm_get_dev_t() is just used to convert an arbitrary 'path' string
into a dev_t. It doesn't presume that the device is present; that
check will be done later, as the only caller is dm_get_device(),
which does a dm_get_table_device() later on, which will properly
open the device.

So if the path string already _is_ in major:minor representation
we can convert it directly, avoiding a recursion into the filesystem
to lookup the block device.

This avoids a hang in multipath_message() when the filesystem is
inaccessible.

Fixes: 644bda6f34 ("dm table: fall back to getting device using name_to_dev_t()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2021-01-27 11:54:54 +01:00

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