From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 07:55:39 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: block: fix bug in ptbl lookup cache
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block: fix bug in ptbl lookup cache

Neil writes:

   Hi Jens,

    I've found a little bug for you.  It was introduced by
        a6f23657d3072bde6844055bbc2290e497f33fbc

        block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup

    and has the effect of killing my machine whenever I try to assemble
    an md array :-(
    One of the devices in the array has partitions, and mdadm always
    deletes partitions before putting a whole-device in an array (as it
    can cause confusion).  The next IO to that device locks the machine.
    I don't really understand exactly why it locks up, but it happens in
    disk_map_sector_rcu().  This patch fixes it.

Which is due to a missing clear of the (now) stale partition lookup
data. So clear that when we delete a partition.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
---

diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
index 5198ada6739..6d720243f5f 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -334,6 +334,7 @@ void delete_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno)
 
 	blk_free_devt(part_devt(part));
 	rcu_assign_pointer(ptbl->part[partno], NULL);
+	rcu_assign_pointer(ptbl->last_lookup, NULL);
 	kobject_put(part->holder_dir);
 	device_del(part_to_dev(part));