Re: [PATCH] block: don't set GD_NEED_PART_SCAN if scan partition failed

[Jan Kara]

On Wed 22-03-23 15:58:35, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 11:59:26AM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> > From: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Currently if disk_scan_partitions() failed, GD_NEED_PART_SCAN will still
> > set, and partition scan will be proceed again when blkdev_get_by_dev()
> > is called. However, this will cause a problem that re-assemble partitioned
> > raid device will creat partition for underlying disk.
> > 
> > Test procedure:
> > 
> > mdadm -CR /dev/md0 -l 1 -n 2 /dev/sda /dev/sdb -e 1.0
> > sgdisk -n 0:0:+100MiB /dev/md0
> > blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda
> > blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sdb
> > mdadm -S /dev/md0
> > mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb
> > 
> > Test result: underlying disk partition and raid partition can be
> > observed at the same time
> > 
> > Note that this can still happen in come corner cases that
> > GD_NEED_PART_SCAN can be set for underlying disk while re-assemble raid
> > device.
> > 
> > Fixes: e5cfefa97bcc ("block: fix scan partition for exclusively open device again")
> > Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The issue still can't be avoided completely, such as, after rebooting,
> /dev/sda1 & /dev/md0p1 can be observed at the same time. And this one
> should be underlying partitions scanned before re-assembling raid, I
> guess it may not be easy to avoid.

So this was always happening (before my patches, after my patches, and now
after Yu's patches) and kernel does not have enough information to know
that sda will become part of md0 device in the future. But mdadm actually
deals with this as far as I remember and deletes partitions for all devices
it is assembling the array from (and quick tracing experiment I did
supports this).

								Honza

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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR