Re: [PATCH] block: remove the bd_openers checks in blk_drop_partitions

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

Jens,

can you pick this one up?

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 10:52:03AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> When replacing the bd_super check with a bd_openers I followed a logical
> conclusion, which turns out to be utterly wrong.  When a block device has
> bd_super sets it has a mount file system on it (although not every
> mounted file system sets bd_super), but that also implies it doesn't even
> have partitions to start with.
> 
> So instead of trying to come up with a logical check for all openers,
> just remove the check entirely.
> 
> Fixes: d3ef5536274f ("block: fix busy device checking in blk_drop_partitions")
> Fixes: cb6b771b05c3 ("block: fix busy device checking in blk_drop_partitions again")
> Reported-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
> Reported-by: Yang Xu <xuyang2018.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
>  block/partitions/core.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/partitions/core.c b/block/partitions/core.c
> index bc1ded1331b14..9ef48a8cff867 100644
> --- a/block/partitions/core.c
> +++ b/block/partitions/core.c
> @@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ int blk_drop_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
>  
>  	if (!disk_part_scan_enabled(disk))
>  		return 0;
> -	if (bdev->bd_part_count || bdev->bd_openers > 1)
> +	if (bdev->bd_part_count)
>  		return -EBUSY;
>  	res = invalidate_partition(disk, 0);
>  	if (res)
> -- 
> 2.26.1
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