Return EBUSY from BLKRRPART for mounted whole-dev fs

Today, blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda will fail with EBUSY if any partition of sda is mounted (and will fail with EINVAL if pointed at a partition). But it will pass if the entire block device is formatted with a filesystem and mounted. I don't think this makes sense; partitioning should surely not ever change out from under a mounted device. So check for bdev->bd_super, and fail that with -EBUSY as well. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
mrcsosa · Nov 26, 2015 · 77032ca · 77032ca
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diff --git a/block/partition-generic.c b/block/partition-generic.c
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static int drop_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
 	struct hd_struct *part;
 	int res;
 
-	if (bdev->bd_part_count)
+	if (bdev->bd_part_count || bdev->bd_super)
 		return -EBUSY;
 	res = invalidate_partition(disk, 0);
 	if (res)