This reverts commit 1a721de848.
The commit 1a721de848 ("block: don't add or resize partition on the disk
with GENHD_FL_NO_PART") and the commit 7777f47f2e ("block: Move checking
GENHD_FL_NO_PART to bdev_add_partition()") used the flag GENHD_FL_NO_PART
to prevent the add or resize of partitions in 5.15 stable kernels.But in
these 5.15 kernels, this is giving an issue with the following error
where the loop driver wants to create a partition when the partscan is
disabled on the loop device:
dd if=/dev/zero of=loopDisk.dsk bs=1M count=1 seek=10240;
losetup -f loopDisk.dsk;parted -s /dev/loop0 -- mklabel gpt mkpart primary
2048s 4096s
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB, 1.0 MiB) copied, 0.0016293 s, 644 MB/s
""
Error: Partition(s) 1 on /dev/loop0 have been written, but we have been
unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are
in use. As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in use. You should
reboot now before making further changes.
""
If the partition scan is not enabled on the loop device, this flag
GENHD_FL_NO_PART is getting set and when partition creation is tried,
it returns an error EINVAL thereby preventing the creation of partitions.
So, there is no such distinction between disabling of partition scan and
partition creation.
Later in 6.xxx kernels, the commit b9684a71fc ("block, loop: support
partitions without scanning") a new flag GD_SUPPRESS_PART_SCAN was
introduced that just disables the partition scan and uses GENHD_FL_NO_PART
only to prevent creating partition scan. So, the partition creationg can
proceed with even if partition scan is disabled.
As the commit b9684a71fc ("block, loop: support partitions without
scanning") is not available in 5.15 stable kernel, and since there is no
distinction between disabling of "partition scan" and "partition
creation", we need to revert the commits 1a721de848 and 7777f47f2e
from 5.15 stable kernel to allow partition creation when partscan is
disabled.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gulam Mohamed <gulam.mohamed@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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