This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
block: add a partscan sysfs attribute for disks
to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
block-add-a-partscan-sysfs-attribute-for-disks.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From a4217c6740dc64a3eb6815868a9260825e8c68c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 15:00:33 +0200
Subject: block: add a partscan sysfs attribute for disks
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
commit a4217c6740dc64a3eb6815868a9260825e8c68c6 upstream.
Userspace had been unknowingly relying on a non-stable interface of
kernel internals to determine if partition scanning is enabled for a
given disk. Provide a stable interface for this purpose instead.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 6.3+
Depends-on: 140ce28dd3be ("block: add a disk_has_partscan helper")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/ZhQJf8mzq_wipkBH@gardel-login/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240502130033.1958492-3-hch@xxxxxx
[axboe: add links and commit message from Keith]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block | 10 ++++++++++
block/genhd.c | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
@@ -101,6 +101,16 @@ Description:
devices that support receiving integrity metadata.
+What: /sys/block/<disk>/partscan
+Date: May 2024
+Contact: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
+Description:
+ The /sys/block/<disk>/partscan files reports if partition
+ scanning is enabled for the disk. It returns "1" if partition
+ scanning is enabled, or "0" if not. The value type is a 32-bit
+ unsigned integer, but only "0" and "1" are valid values.
+
+
What: /sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/alignment_offset
Date: April 2009
Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -1037,6 +1037,12 @@ static ssize_t diskseq_show(struct devic
return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", disk->diskseq);
}
+static ssize_t partscan_show(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", disk_has_partscan(dev_to_disk(dev)));
+}
+
static DEVICE_ATTR(range, 0444, disk_range_show, NULL);
static DEVICE_ATTR(ext_range, 0444, disk_ext_range_show, NULL);
static DEVICE_ATTR(removable, 0444, disk_removable_show, NULL);
@@ -1050,6 +1056,7 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR(stat, 0444, part_stat
static DEVICE_ATTR(inflight, 0444, part_inflight_show, NULL);
static DEVICE_ATTR(badblocks, 0644, disk_badblocks_show, disk_badblocks_store);
static DEVICE_ATTR(diskseq, 0444, diskseq_show, NULL);
+static DEVICE_ATTR(partscan, 0444, partscan_show, NULL);
#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
ssize_t part_fail_show(struct device *dev,
@@ -1096,6 +1103,7 @@ static struct attribute *disk_attrs[] =
&dev_attr_events_async.attr,
&dev_attr_events_poll_msecs.attr,
&dev_attr_diskseq.attr,
+ &dev_attr_partscan.attr,
#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
&dev_attr_fail.attr,
#endif
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@xxxxxx are
queue-6.6/block-add-a-disk_has_partscan-helper.patch
queue-6.6/block-add-a-partscan-sysfs-attribute-for-disks.patch
