Saranya, while I evaluate the corresponding patch for blktests, I found a weird behavior, and had a chance to look into this patch. Please find my comments in line. On Apr 06, 2024 / 04:46, Saranya Muruganandam wrote: > The BLKRRPART ioctl used to report errors such as EIO before we changed > the blkdev_reread_part() logic. > > Lets add a flag and capture the errors returned by bdev_disk_changed() > when the flag is set. Setting this flag for the BLKRRPART path when we > want the errors to be reported when rereading partitions on the disk. Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst guides to describe changes in imperative mood, then the sentences above can be rephrased like, Add a flag... Set this flag... > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240320015134.GA14267@xxxxxx/ > Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > Tested: Tested by simulating failure to the block device and will > propose a new test to blktests. > Fixes: 4601b4b130de ("block: reopen the device in blkdev_reread_part") > Reported-by: Saranya Muruganandam <saranyamohan@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Saranya Muruganandam <saranyamohan@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Change-Id: Idf3d97390ed78061556f8468d10d6cab24ae20b1 > --- > block/bdev.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++---------- > block/ioctl.c | 3 ++- > include/linux/blkdev.h | 2 ++ > 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/block/bdev.c b/block/bdev.c > index 7a5f611c3d2e3..42940bced33bb 100644 > --- a/block/bdev.c > +++ b/block/bdev.c > @@ -652,6 +652,14 @@ static void blkdev_flush_mapping(struct block_device *bdev) > bdev_write_inode(bdev); > } > > +static void blkdev_put_whole(struct block_device *bdev) > +{ > + if (atomic_dec_and_test(&bdev->bd_openers)) > + blkdev_flush_mapping(bdev); > + if (bdev->bd_disk->fops->release) > + bdev->bd_disk->fops->release(bdev->bd_disk); > +} > + > static int blkdev_get_whole(struct block_device *bdev, blk_mode_t mode) > { > struct gendisk *disk = bdev->bd_disk; > @@ -670,20 +678,21 @@ static int blkdev_get_whole(struct block_device *bdev, blk_mode_t mode) > > if (!atomic_read(&bdev->bd_openers)) > set_init_blocksize(bdev); > - if (test_bit(GD_NEED_PART_SCAN, &disk->state)) > - bdev_disk_changed(disk, false); > atomic_inc(&bdev->bd_openers); > + if (test_bit(GD_NEED_PART_SCAN, &disk->state)) { > + /* > + * Only return scanning errors if we are called from conexts s/conexts/contexts/ > + * that explicitly want them, e.g. the BLKRRPART ioctl. > + */ > + ret = bdev_disk_changed(disk, false); > + if (ret && (mode & BLK_OPEN_STRICT_SCAN)) { > + blkdev_put_whole(bdev); > + return ret; > + } > + } > return 0; > } > > -static void blkdev_put_whole(struct block_device *bdev) > -{ > - if (atomic_dec_and_test(&bdev->bd_openers)) > - blkdev_flush_mapping(bdev); > - if (bdev->bd_disk->fops->release) > - bdev->bd_disk->fops->release(bdev->bd_disk); > -} > - > static int blkdev_get_part(struct block_device *part, blk_mode_t mode) > { > struct gendisk *disk = part->bd_disk; > diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c > index 0c76137adcaaa..128f503828cee 100644 > --- a/block/ioctl.c > +++ b/block/ioctl.c > @@ -562,7 +562,8 @@ static int blkdev_common_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, blk_mode_t mode, > return -EACCES; > if (bdev_is_partition(bdev)) > return -EINVAL; > - return disk_scan_partitions(bdev->bd_disk, mode); > + return disk_scan_partitions(bdev->bd_disk, > + mode | BLK_OPEN_STRICT_SCAN); > case BLKTRACESTART: > case BLKTRACESTOP: > case BLKTRACETEARDOWN: > diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h > index c3e8f7cf96be9..3ed5e03109c29 100644 > --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h > +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h > @@ -128,6 +128,8 @@ typedef unsigned int __bitwise blk_mode_t; > #define BLK_OPEN_WRITE_IOCTL ((__force blk_mode_t)(1 << 4)) > /* open is exclusive wrt all other BLK_OPEN_WRITE opens to the device */ > #define BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES ((__force blk_mode_t)(1 << 5)) > +/* return partition scanning errors */ > +#define BLK_OPEN_STRICT_SCAN ((__force blk_mode_t)(1 << 5)) The line above assigns the same number for BLK_OPEN_STRICT_SCAN and BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES, then blockdev --rereadpt fails with EINVAL, not EIO. I modified it to "1 << 6", then it looks working good. > > struct gendisk { > /* > -- > 2.44.0.478.gd926399ef9-goog >
