dm: avoid filesystem lookup in dm_get_dev_t()
authorHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:50:56 +0000 (18:50 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 27 Jan 2021 10:54:54 +0000 (11:54 +0100)
commit5a5095ac9e0b716ece6b13a6a760cef2396a4af7
tree99364a75ad42c8cd4812ad95a8710df558ba27bc
parent4749ffd9c432cc7a7abdb3064fb213cc3e2e5015
dm: avoid filesystem lookup in dm_get_dev_t()

commit 809b1e4945774c9ec5619a8f4e2189b7b3833c0c upstream.

This reverts commit
644bda6f3460 ("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: 644bda6f3460 ("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>
drivers/md/dm-table.c