Starting with commit 7f9f45b9bfef ("devfs: Do not create overlapping partitions"), any overlapping is disallowed. Overlapping can be useful though to bridge the gap between partition described in DT and via on-disk partition tables. Let's handle the case of identical partitions specially and have it neither be an error or a duplicate partition, but instead just return the existing partition and create a cdev link to it if the name differs. This existing partition will be given a device tree node and thus enabling schemes like: &{/state} { backend = <&state_part>; }; &mmc1 { partitions { compatible = "fixed-partitions"; #address-cells = <2>; #size-cells = <2>; state_part: partition@5300000 { label = "barebox-state"; /* will be folded with overlapping GPT partition if found */ reg = <0x0 0x5300000 0x0 0x100000>; }; }; }; Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v1 -> v2: - create link to existing cdev if name differs - add identical: goto label to make intent clearer --- fs/devfs-core.c | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/devfs-core.c b/fs/devfs-core.c index 72a37918962b..c9f7fcfb076d 100644 --- a/fs/devfs-core.c +++ b/fs/devfs-core.c @@ -405,6 +405,12 @@ int devfs_remove(struct cdev *cdev) return 0; } +static bool region_identical(loff_t starta, loff_t lena, + loff_t startb, loff_t lenb) +{ + return starta == startb && lena == lenb; +} + static bool region_overlap(loff_t starta, loff_t lena, loff_t startb, loff_t lenb) { @@ -415,10 +421,22 @@ static bool region_overlap(loff_t starta, loff_t lena, return 1; } -static int check_overlap(struct cdev *cdev, const char *name, loff_t offset, loff_t size) +/** + * check_overlap() - check overlap with existing partitions + * @cdev: parent cdev + * @name: partition name for informational purposes on conflict + * @offset: offset of new partition to be added + * @size: size of new partition to be added + * + * Return: NULL if no overlapping partition found or overlapping + * partition if and only if it's identical in offset and size + * to an existing partition. Otherwise, PTR_ERR(-EINVAL). + */ +static struct cdev *check_overlap(struct cdev *cdev, const char *name, loff_t offset, loff_t size) { struct cdev *cpart; loff_t cpart_offset; + int ret; list_for_each_entry(cpart, &cdev->partitions, partition_entry) { cpart_offset = cpart->offset; @@ -431,20 +449,29 @@ static int check_overlap(struct cdev *cdev, const char *name, loff_t offset, lof if (cpart->mtd) cpart_offset = cpart->mtd->master_offset; - if (region_overlap(cpart_offset, cpart->size, - offset, size)) + if (region_identical(cpart_offset, cpart->size, offset, size)) { + ret = 0; + goto identical; + } + + if (region_overlap(cpart_offset, cpart->size, offset, size)) { + ret = -EINVAL; goto conflict; + } } - return 0; + return NULL; +identical: conflict: - pr_err("New partition %s (0x%08llx-0x%08llx) on %s " - "overlaps with partition %s (0x%08llx-0x%08llx), not creating it\n", - name, offset, offset + size - 1, cdev->name, - cpart->name, cpart_offset, cpart_offset + cpart->size - 1); + __pr_printk(ret ? MSG_WARNING : MSG_DEBUG, + "New partition %s (0x%08llx-0x%08llx) on %s " + "%s with partition %s (0x%08llx-0x%08llx), not creating it\n", + name, offset, offset + size - 1, cdev->name, + ret ? "conflicts" : "identical", + cpart->name, cpart_offset, cpart_offset + cpart->size - 1); - return -EINVAL; + return ret ? ERR_PTR(ret) : cpart; } static struct cdev *__devfs_add_partition(struct cdev *cdev, @@ -452,6 +479,7 @@ static struct cdev *__devfs_add_partition(struct cdev *cdev, { loff_t offset, size; static struct cdev *new; + struct cdev *overlap; if (cdev_by_name(partinfo->name)) return ERR_PTR(-EEXIST); @@ -482,8 +510,15 @@ static struct cdev *__devfs_add_partition(struct cdev *cdev, return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); } - if (check_overlap(cdev, partinfo->name, offset, size)) - return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + overlap = check_overlap(cdev, partinfo->name, offset, size); + if (overlap) { + if (!IS_ERR(overlap)) { + /* only fails with -EEXIST, which is fine */ + (void)devfs_create_link(overlap, partinfo->name); + } + + return overlap; + } if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MTD) && cdev->mtd) { struct mtd_info *mtd; -- 2.39.2