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| author | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> | 2024-05-02 15:00:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2024-05-03 09:00:07 -0600 |
| commit | a4217c6740dc64a3eb6815868a9260825e8c68c6 (patch) | |
| tree | ac4fd5788f1296cb88329bd6ef2595b269711328 /block/genhd.c | |
| parent | 140ce28dd3bee8e53acc27f123ae474d69ef66f0 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-a4217c6740dc64a3eb6815868a9260825e8c68c6.tar.gz lwn-a4217c6740dc64a3eb6815868a9260825e8c68c6.zip | |
block: add a partscan sysfs attribute for disks
Userspace had been unknowingly relying on a non-stable interface of
kernel internals to determine if partition scanning is enabled for a
given disk. Provide a stable interface for this purpose instead.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.3+
Depends-on: 140ce28dd3be ("block: add a disk_has_partscan helper")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/ZhQJf8mzq_wipkBH@gardel-login/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240502130033.1958492-3-hch@lst.de
[axboe: add links and commit message from Keith]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/genhd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/genhd.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 4b85963d09db..dec2ee338fb4 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -1044,6 +1044,12 @@ static ssize_t diskseq_show(struct device *dev, return sprintf(buf, "%llu\n", disk->diskseq); } +static ssize_t partscan_show(struct device *dev, + struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf) +{ + return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", disk_has_partscan(dev_to_disk(dev))); +} + static DEVICE_ATTR(range, 0444, disk_range_show, NULL); static DEVICE_ATTR(ext_range, 0444, disk_ext_range_show, NULL); static DEVICE_ATTR(removable, 0444, disk_removable_show, NULL); @@ -1057,6 +1063,7 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR(stat, 0444, part_stat_show, NULL); static DEVICE_ATTR(inflight, 0444, part_inflight_show, NULL); static DEVICE_ATTR(badblocks, 0644, disk_badblocks_show, disk_badblocks_store); static DEVICE_ATTR(diskseq, 0444, diskseq_show, NULL); +static DEVICE_ATTR(partscan, 0444, partscan_show, NULL); #ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST ssize_t part_fail_show(struct device *dev, @@ -1103,6 +1110,7 @@ static struct attribute *disk_attrs[] = { &dev_attr_events_async.attr, &dev_attr_events_poll_msecs.attr, &dev_attr_diskseq.attr, + &dev_attr_partscan.attr, #ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST &dev_attr_fail.attr, #endif |