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block: add a partscan sysfs attribute for disks
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commit a4217c6 upstream.

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: [email protected] # 6.3+
Depends-on: 140ce28 ("block: add a disk_has_partscan helper")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/ZhQJf8mzq_wipkBH@gardel-login/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[axboe: add links and commit message from Keith]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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Christoph Hellwig authored and Avenger-285714 committed May 27, 2024
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10 changes: 10 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
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Expand Up @@ -101,6 +101,16 @@ Description:
devices that support receiving integrity metadata.


What: /sys/block/<disk>/partscan
Date: May 2024
Contact: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Description:
The /sys/block/<disk>/partscan files reports if partition
scanning is enabled for the disk. It returns "1" if partition
scanning is enabled, or "0" if not. The value type is a 32-bit
unsigned integer, but only "0" and "1" are valid values.


What: /sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/alignment_offset
Date: April 2009
Contact: Martin K. Petersen <[email protected]>
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions block/genhd.c
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Expand Up @@ -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);
Expand All @@ -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,
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&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
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