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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Do not reread partition table on exclusively open device
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:52:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0afd657e-ccce-5cbb-dd26-c2c07e2f59d8@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221130175653.24299-1-jack@suse.cz>

On 11/30/22 10:56 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> Since commit 10c70d95c0f2 ("block: remove the bd_openers checks in
> blk_drop_partitions") we allow rereading of partition table although
> there are users of the block device. This has an undesirable consequence
> that e.g. if sda and sdb are assembled to a RAID1 device md0 with
> partitions, BLKRRPART ioctl on sda will rescan partition table and
> create sda1 device. This partition device under a raid device confuses
> some programs (such as libstorage-ng used for initial partitioning for
> distribution installation) leading to failures.
> 
> Fix the problem refusing to rescan partitions if there is another user
> that has the block device exclusively open.

This looks nice and clean to me. Was pondering whether to queue this up
for 6.1, but it's old enough that I think we should just funnel it through
6.2 and mark it stable.

-- 
Jens Axboe



  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-30 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-30 17:56 [PATCH] block: Do not reread partition table on exclusively open device Jan Kara
2022-11-30 22:52 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2022-11-30 22:54 ` Jens Axboe
2022-12-01  7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-12-01 11:44   ` Jan Kara
2023-01-31 14:00 ` Yu Kuai
2023-01-31 14:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-02-01  1:04     ` Yu Kuai
2023-02-01  6:22       ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-02-01  7:20         ` Yu Kuai
2023-02-06  3:24           ` Yu Kuai
2023-02-08 12:02             ` Jan Kara
2023-02-08 14:13               ` Yu Kuai
2023-02-09  9:04                 ` Jan Kara
2023-02-09  9:32                   ` Yu Kuai
2023-02-09  9:57                     ` Jan Kara
2023-02-09 11:19                       ` Yu Kuai
2023-02-09 13:58                         ` Jan Kara
2023-02-10  1:58                           ` Yu Kuai
2023-02-10 10:31                             ` Jan Kara
2023-02-11  3:46                               ` Yu Kuai
2023-02-02 12:50 ` Yu Kuai

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