6.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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 @@ -1044,6 +1044,12 @@ 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); @@ -1057,6 +1063,7 @@ 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, @@ -1103,6 +1110,7 @@ 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