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From: Dmitriy Gorokh <degifted@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, axboe@kernel.dk
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] block: fix locking in bdev_del_partition
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:56:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANYdAbJVvNB+5Kyqgu3aoh8ug6C2DVkys8JWrY-nQvtPLEgeOw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi Christoph,

Unfortunately this fix (Upstream commit
08fc1ab6d748ab1a690fd483f41e2938984ce353) breaks compatibility with
some userspace tools, specifically mdadm, who expect ENXIO errno as a
result of BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION operation to test if the block device is
a whole-disk or a partition. With the recent 5.8 kernel it now returns
ENOMEM on an existing block device which seems inconsistent.

Regards,
Dmitriy

             reply	other threads:[~2020-09-11 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-11 14:56 Dmitriy Gorokh [this message]
2020-09-11 14:58 ` [PATCH] block: fix locking in bdev_del_partition Christoph Hellwig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-09-01  9:59 Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-01 14:35 ` Jens Axboe

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