block: simplify bdev/disk lookup in blkdev_get

To simplify block device lookup and a few other upcoming areas, make sure
that we always have a struct block_device available for each disk and
each partition, and only find existing block devices in bdget.  The only
downside of this is that each device and partition uses a little more
memory.  The upside will be that a lot of code can be simplified.

With that all we need to look up the block device is to lookup the inode
and do a few sanity checks on the gendisk, instead of the separate lookup
for the gendisk.  For blk-cgroup which wants to access a gendisk without
opening it, a new blkdev_{get,put}_no_open low-level interface is added
to replace the previous get_gendisk use.

Note that the change to look up block device directly instead of the two
step lookup using struct gendisk causes a subtile change in behavior:
accessing a non-existing partition on an existing block device can now
cause a call to request_module.  That call is harmless, and in practice
no recent system will access these nodes as they aren't created by udev
and static /dev/ setups are unusual.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index bdd7339bcda4..5d48b92f5e43 100644
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -1994,6 +1994,12 @@ void bd_abort_claiming(struct block_device *bdev, struct block_device *whole,
 		void *holder);
 void blkdev_put(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode);
 
+/* just for blk-cgroup, don't use elsewhere */
+struct block_device *blkdev_get_no_open(dev_t dev);
+void blkdev_put_no_open(struct block_device *bdev);
+
+struct block_device *bdev_alloc(struct gendisk *disk, u8 partno);
+void bdev_add(struct block_device *bdev, dev_t dev);
 struct block_device *I_BDEV(struct inode *inode);
 struct block_device *bdget_part(struct hd_struct *part);
 struct block_device *bdgrab(struct block_device *bdev);