Bug 490479

Summary: error when hot-unplugging a file-backed virtio disk
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Mike Bonnet <mikeb>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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dmesg output after the disk was hot-unplugged, including the kernel backtrace none

Description Mike Bonnet 2009-03-16 16:38:58 UTC
Created attachment 335373 [details]
dmesg output after the disk was hot-unplugged, including the kernel backtrace

Description of problem:
I had just added a new file-backed virtio disk to a running F10 guest on a F10 host.  When I then removed the disk from the running host (using virt-manager), I got this message printed to the console:

WARNING: at drivers/base/core.c:122 device_release+0x66/0x68()
Hardware name: 
Device 'virtio2' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed.

The device appeared to be successfully removed (it no longer appeared in /proc/partitions in the running guest).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a file-backed virtio disk to a running guest
2. Remove the disk
3.
  
Actual results:
Error message and kernel backtrace printed to the console

Expected results:
No error

Additional info:
The device was apparently 'virtio2' because it was the second virtio device added to the system.  When I reproduced the error again later it said: Device 'virtio4'...

Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2009-03-25 17:03:20 UTC
Thanks for the report

Fixed a while ago upstream by:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=29f9f12ec7

So, it should be fixed in rawhide

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