[PATCH 2/8] block: restart partition scan after resizing a device

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Sat May 15 2010 - 14:12:20 EST


Device resize via ->set_capacity() can reveal new partitions (e.g. in
chained partition table formats such as dos extended parts). Restart
partition scan from the beginning after resizing a device. This
change also makes libata always revalidate the disk after resize which
makes lower layer native capacity unlocking implementation simpler and
more robust as resize can be handled in the usual path.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/partitions/check.c | 16 ++++++----------
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
index e238ab2..8f01df3 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
struct hd_struct *part;
struct parsed_partitions *state;
int p, highest, res;
-
+rescan:
if (bdev->bd_part_count)
return -EBUSY;
res = invalidate_partition(disk, 0);
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
/* add partitions */
for (p = 1; p < state->limit; p++) {
sector_t size, from;
-try_scan:
+
size = state->parts[p].size;
if (!size)
continue;
@@ -596,7 +596,6 @@ try_scan:

if (from + size > get_capacity(disk)) {
const struct block_device_operations *bdops = disk->fops;
- unsigned long long capacity;

printk(KERN_WARNING
"%s: p%d size %llu exceeds device capacity, ",
@@ -605,14 +604,11 @@ try_scan:
if (bdops->set_capacity &&
(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_NATIVE_CAPACITY) == 0) {
printk(KERN_CONT "enabling native capacity\n");
- capacity = bdops->set_capacity(disk, ~0ULL);
+ bdops->set_capacity(disk, ~0ULL);
disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_NATIVE_CAPACITY;
- if (capacity > get_capacity(disk)) {
- set_capacity(disk, capacity);
- check_disk_size_change(disk, bdev);
- bdev->bd_invalidated = 0;
- }
- goto try_scan;
+ /* free state and restart */
+ kfree(state);
+ goto rescan;
} else {
/*
* we can not ignore partitions of broken tables
--
1.6.4.2

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