For disk devices, a new uevent parameter 'NPARTS' specifies the number
of partitions detected by the kernel. Partition devices get 'PARTN' which
specifies the partitions index in the table, and 'PARTNAME', which
specifies PARTNAME specifices the partition name of a partition device
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
(cherry picked from commit 38c6302d9f)
Since 2.6.39 (1196f8b), when a driver returns -ENOMEDIUM for open(),
__blkdev_get() calls rescan_partitions() to remove
in-kernel partition structures and raise KOBJ_CHANGE uevent.
However it ends up calling driver's revalidate_disk without open
and could cause oops.
In the case of SCSI:
process A process B
----------------------------------------------
sys_open
__blkdev_get
sd_open
returns -ENOMEDIUM
scsi_remove_device
<scsi_device torn down>
rescan_partitions
sd_revalidate_disk
<oops>
Oopses are reported here:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=132388619710052
This patch separates the partition invalidation from rescan_partitions()
and use it for -ENOMEDIUM case.
Reported-by: Huajun Li <huajun.li.lee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
