[PATCH 1/7] block: export blkdev_reread_part() and __blkdev_reread_part()

Jarod Wilson
2015-04-08T06:23:40Z

This patch exports blkdev_reread_part() for block drivers, also
introduce __blkdev_reread_part(), a lockless version.

For some drivers, such as loop, a reread of partitions can be run
from the release path, and bd_mutex may already be held prior to
calling ioctl_by_bdev(bdev, BLKRRPART, 0), so introduce a lockless
path for use in such cases.

CC: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
CC: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
CC: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
CC: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
CC: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
CC: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@de.ibm.com>
CC: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
CC: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
CC: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
CC: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
---
block/ioctl.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++---
include/linux/fs.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
index 7d8befd..64a4fcb 100644
--- a/block/ioctl.c
+++ b/block/ioctl.c
@@ -150,21 +150,41 @@ static int blkpg_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct blkpg_ioctl_arg __user
}
}

-static int blkdev_reread_part(struct block_device *bdev)
+/*
+ * This is an exported API for the block driver, and will not
+ * acquire bd_mutex, leaving it up to the caller to handle
+ * any necessary locking.
+ */
+int __blkdev_reread_part(struct block_device *bdev)
{
struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk;
- int res;

if (!disk_part_scan_enabled(disk) || bdev != bdev->bd_contains)
return -EINVAL;
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EACCES;
+
+ return rescan_partitions(disk, bdev);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__blkdev_reread_part);
+
+/*
+ * This is an exported API for the block driver, and will
+ * acquire bd_mutex. Make sure you aren't calling it with
+ * bd_mutex already held, or we'll return -EBUSY.
+ */
+int blkdev_reread_part(struct block_device *bdev)
+{
+ int res;
+
if (!mutex_trylock(&bdev->bd_mutex))
return -EBUSY;
- res = rescan_partitions(disk, bdev);
+ res = __blkdev_reread_part(bdev);
mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+
return res;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(blkdev_reread_part);

static int blk_ioctl_discard(struct block_device *bdev, uint64_t start,
uint64_t len, int secure)
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index f4131e8..11398e3 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2245,6 +2245,9 @@ extern struct block_device *blkdev_get_by_path(const char *path, fmode_t mode,
extern struct block_device *blkdev_get_by_dev(dev_t dev, fmode_t mode,
void *holder);
extern void blkdev_put(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode);
+extern int __blkdev_reread_part(struct block_device *bdev);
+extern int blkdev_reread_part(struct block_device *bdev);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSFS
extern int bd_link_disk_holder(struct block_device *bdev, struct gendisk *disk);
extern void bd_unlink_disk_holder(struct block_device *bdev,
--
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