From: Jun'ichi Nomura Don't release the minor number for reuse within device-mapper until after del_gendisk() has released it. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura Signed-Off-By: Alasdair G Kergon Index: linux-2.6.16-rc1/drivers/md/dm.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.16-rc1.orig/drivers/md/dm.c 2006-03-01 21:42:55.000000000 +0000 +++ linux-2.6.16-rc1/drivers/md/dm.c 2006-03-01 21:42:59.000000000 +0000 @@ -849,14 +849,16 @@ static struct mapped_device *alloc_dev(u static void free_dev(struct mapped_device *md) { + unsigned int minor = md->disk->first_minor; + if (md->suspended_bdev) { thaw_bdev(md->suspended_bdev, NULL); bdput(md->suspended_bdev); } - free_minor(md->disk->first_minor); mempool_destroy(md->tio_pool); mempool_destroy(md->io_pool); del_gendisk(md->disk); + free_minor(minor); put_disk(md->disk); blk_put_queue(md->queue); kfree(md);