On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 06:35:56PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > While this looks a lot nicer, I don't think it actually works given that > > do_dentry_open clears out O_EXCL, and thus it won't be set when > > calling into blkdev_ioctl. > > Aha, good point! So I need to workaround this a bit differently. I think > the best would be to have file_to_blk_mode() for blkdev_open() only and > make the other places (which already have bdev_handle available from > struct file) use bdev_handle->mode. Exactly. > But I have to come up with a sane > transition to that state :). I think you can simply do it in the patch switching the block device to be handle based.
