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It allows to reset prevent_medium_removal flag and "eject" the image.
This can be useful to free the drive from a hunging host or if the host
continues to use the drive even after unmounting (Linux does this).
It's also a bit like using an unfolded paperclip on an optical drive.

Previously, the undocumented method of sending SIGUSR1 to a special
"file-storage" kernel thread could be used for these purposes,
but when using multiple storages there was no way to distinguish
one from the other, so we had to send a signal to everyone.
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Maxim Devaev <mdevaev@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220711102956.19642-1-mdevaev@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>