dm: delay registering the gendisk
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Wed, 4 Aug 2021 09:41:46 +0000 (11:41 +0200)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Mon, 9 Aug 2021 17:50:43 +0000 (11:50 -0600)
commit89f871af1b26d98d983cba7ed0e86effa45ba5f8
treeec9e14d1842a1777830e3878dcffb054552c5714
parentba30585936b0b88f0fb2b19be279b346a6cc87eb
dm: delay registering the gendisk

device mapper is currently the only outlier that tries to call
register_disk after add_disk, leading to fairly inconsistent state
of these block layer data structures.  Instead change device-mapper
to just register the gendisk later now that the holder mechanism
can cope with that.

Note that this introduces a user visible change: the dm kobject is
now only visible after the initial table has been loaded.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210804094147.459763-8-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
drivers/md/dm-rq.c
drivers/md/dm.c