block: Do not reread partition table on exclusively open device

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commit 36369f46e9 upstream.

Since commit 10c70d95c0 ("block: remove the bd_openers checks in
blk_drop_partitions") we allow rereading of partition table although
there are users of the block device. This has an undesirable consequence
that e.g. if sda and sdb are assembled to a RAID1 device md0 with
partitions, BLKRRPART ioctl on sda will rescan partition table and
create sda1 device. This partition device under a raid device confuses
some programs (such as libstorage-ng used for initial partitioning for
distribution installation) leading to failures.

Fix the problem refusing to rescan partitions if there is another user
that has the block device exclusively open.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221130135344.2ul4cyfstfs3znxg@quack3
Fixes: 10c70d95c0 ("block: remove the bd_openers checks in blk_drop_partitions")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221130175653.24299-1-jack@suse.cz
[axboe: fold in followup fix]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Jan Kara 2022-11-30 18:56:53 +01:00 • committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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commit a35b4bcb43

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