Hello, (This series is just RESEND with rebasing it on for-next) This patch fixes I/O errors during BLKRRPART ioctl() behavior right after format operation that changed logical block size of the block device with a same file descriptor opened. Testcase: The following testcase is a case of NVMe namespace with the following conditions: - Current LBA format is lbaf=0 (512 bytes logical block size) - LBA Format(lbaf=1) has 4096 bytes logical block size # Format block device logical block size 512B to 4096B nvme format /dev/nvme0n1 --lbaf=1 --force This will cause I/O errors because BLKRRPART ioctl() happened right after the format command with same file descriptor opened in application (e.g., nvme-cli) like: fd = open("/dev/nvme0n1", O_RDONLY); nvme_format(fd, ...); if (ioctl(fd, BLKRRPART) < 0) ... Errors: We can see the Read command with Number of LBA(NLB) 0xffff(65535) which was under-flowed because BLKRRPART operation requested request size based on i_blkbits of the block device which is 9 via buffer_head. [dmesg-snip] [ 10.771740] blk_update_request: operation not supported error, dev nvme0n1, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0 [ 10.780262] Buffer I/O error on dev nvme0n1, logical block 0, async page read [event-snip] kworker/0:1H-56 [000] .... 913.456922: nvme_setup_cmd: nvme0: disk=nvme0n1, qid=1, cmdid=216, nsid=1, flags=0x0, meta=0x0, cmd=(nvme_cmd_read slba=0, len=65535, ctrl=0x0, dsmgmt=0, reftag=0) ksoftirqd/0-9 [000] .Ns. 916.566351: nvme_complete_rq: nvme0: disk=nvme0n1, qid=1, cmdid=216, res=0x0, retries=0, flags=0x0, status=0x4002 The patch below fixes the I/O errors by rejecting I/O requests from the block layer with setting a flag to request_queue until the file descriptor re-opened to be updated by __blkdev_get(). This is based on the previous discussion [1]. Since V5: - Rebased on for-next Since V4: - Rebased on block-5.11. - Added Reviewed-by Tag from Christoph. Since V3(RFC): - Move flag from gendisk to request_queue for future clean-ups. (Christoph, [3]) Since V2(RFC): - Cover letter with testcase and error logs attached. Removed un-related changes: empty line. (Chaitanya, [2]) - Put blkdev with blkdev_put_no_open(). Since V1(RFC): - Updated patch to reject I/O rather than updating i_blkbits of the block device's inode directly from driver. (Christoph, [1]) Minwoo Im (1): block: reject I/O for same fd if block size changed block/blk-settings.c | 3 +++ block/partitions/core.c | 12 ++++++++++++ fs/block_dev.c | 8 ++++++++ include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 24 insertions(+) -- 2.17.1