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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2023-02-03 16:02:09 +0100
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>2023-02-06 08:44:55 -0700
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block: stub out and deprecated the capability attribute on the gendisk
The capability attribute was added in 2017 to expose the kernel internal GENHD_FL_MEDIA_CHANGE_NOTIFY to userspace without ever adding a value to an UAPI header, and without ever setting it in any driver until it was finally removed in Linux 5.7. Deprecate the file and always return 0 instead of exposing the other internal and frequently renumbered other gendisk flags. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230203150209.3199115-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 705dec0800d6..7e031559bf51 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -1024,9 +1024,8 @@ ssize_t part_inflight_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
static ssize_t disk_capability_show(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
- struct gendisk *disk = dev_to_disk(dev);
-
- return sprintf(buf, "%x\n", disk->flags);
+ dev_warn_once(dev, "the capability attribute has been deprecated.\n");
+ return sprintf(buf, "0\n");
}
static ssize_t disk_alignment_offset_show(struct device *dev,