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From: [email protected]

On Sun, 2025-06-29 at 12:26 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

Hello Roland,

On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 11:46:00AM +0200, Roland Sommer wrote:

[correcting CC recipients]

Huh, how did I manage that (rhetorical question)? Thanks

Ahh, now that makes sense. pktsetup calls `/sbin/modprobe pktcdvd` explicitly, the blacklist entry doesn't help for that. Without the
kernel module renamed, does the 2nd DVD-RAM result in the blocking behaviour?

Yes.

OK, that makes sense. So udev does in this order:

- auto-load the module (which is suppressed with the backlist entry)
- call blkid (which blocks if the module is loaded)
- call pktsetup (which loads the module even in presence of the
blacklist entry).

[...]

I tested with a CD-RW, and the behaviour was slightly different:

- Nothing automtically created a pktcdvd device, so blkid initially
worked with a CD-RW inserted and the pktcdvd modules loaded.
- After running pktsetup to create the block device /dev/pktcdvd/0,
blkid and any other program attempting to open that device hung.

My conslusion is that pktcdvd is eqaully broken for CD-RWs.

Ben.

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XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
From: [email protected]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

Hi Roland,

On Sun, Jun 08, 2025 at 01:24:55PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:

Control: reassign -1 src:linux

On Sun, Jun 08, 2025 at 08:59:22AM +0200, Roland Sommer wrote:

blkid works all the time as expected but hangs forever after inserting any DVD-
RAM in the drive. dmesg then reports every approx. 120s (up to 10 times):

[ 363.635218] INFO: task blkid:2224 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[ 363.635232] Tainted: P OE 6.1.0-37-amd64 #1 Debian 6.1.140-1
[ 363.635235] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this
message.
[ 363.635238] task:blkid state:D stack:0 pid:2224 ppid:2216 flags:0x00004002
[ 363.635245] Call Trace:
[ 363.635247] <TASK>
[ 363.635252] __schedule+0x34d/0x9e0
[ 363.635266] schedule+0x5a/0xd0
[ 363.635271] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x11/0x20
[ 363.635276] __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x399/0x700
[ 363.635283] pkt_ioctl+0x42/0x120 [pktcdvd]
[ 363.635294] pkt_ioctl+0xce/0x120 [pktcdvd]
[ 363.635302] ? do_syscall_64+0x61/0xb0
[ 363.635308] ? do_filp_open+0xaf/0x160
[ 363.635313] blkdev_ioctl+0x133/0x270

Looks like pktcdvd isn't returning to userspace. Reassigning to the
kernel, as blkid won't be able to do anything about that. Might also
be a hardware issue if it works elsewhere?

Please provide as well as full boot log up to when triggering the
issue so we can see more context.

Regards,
Salvatore

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From: [email protected]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 05:13:45PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:

My conslusion is that pktcdvd is eqaully broken for CD-RWs.

Not surprising. Maybe we should take another stab at killing it
from the kernel.

Yes, please. I don't mind having this support, but it needs an
active maintainer. And even if it was actively maintained it'd
probably do better by being integrated into sr and the generic
cdrom layer than this stacked design.

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XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
From: [email protected]

On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 05:13:45PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:

On 7/2/25 5:08 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:

On Sun, 2025-06-29 at 12:26 +0200, Uwe Kleine-K�nig wrote:

On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 11:46:00AM +0200, Roland Sommer wrote:

Huh, how did I manage that (rhetorical question)? Thanks

Ahh, now that makes sense. pktsetup calls `/sbin/modprobe pktcdvd`
explicitly, the blacklist entry doesn't help for that. Without the
kernel module renamed, does the 2nd DVD-RAM result in the blocking
behaviour?

Yes.

OK, that makes sense. So udev does in this order:

- auto-load the module (which is suppressed with the backlist entry)
- call blkid (which blocks if the module is loaded)
- call pktsetup (which loads the module even in presence of the
blacklist entry).

[...]

I tested with a CD-RW, and the behaviour was slightly different:

- Nothing automtically created a pktcdvd device, so blkid initially
worked with a CD-RW inserted and the pktcdvd modules loaded.
- After running pktsetup to create the block device /dev/pktcdvd/0,
blkid and any other program attempting to open that device hung.

My conslusion is that pktcdvd is eqaully broken for CD-RWs.

Not surprising. Maybe we should take another stab at killing it
from the kernel.

In the commit 4b83e99ee709 ("Revert "pktcdvd: remove driver."") you wrote
that we would wait for better user space solution is developed. Any news there?

Just asking (I'm in favour to kill the old fart) as you haven't mentioned that in a new attempt.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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