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    dm: avoid filesystem lookup in dm_get_dev_t() · 809b1e49
    Hannes Reinecke authored
    This reverts commit
    644bda6f ("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: 644bda6f ("dm table: fall back to getting device using name_to_dev_t()")
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Wilck <mwilck@suse.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
    809b1e49
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