block: flag zoned disks with GENHD_FL_NO_PART - #1148
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Zoned block devices do not support partitions. However, the partition table is nevertheless still inspected, and any partition found ignored with a warning in add_partition(). While this is generally not a problem, and in fact beneficial to the user as it indicates an invalid use of a zoned block device, scanning for a partition table on the device may result in issuing read operations to offline zones (e.g. after a disk head is depopulated for disks that support head management operations). Since partitions are ignored anyway, completely disable partition scanning for zoned gendisks by setting the flag GENHD_FL_NO_PART in __add_disk(). The existing check in add_partition() is left as-is to ensure that we still get a warning if for whatever reason, despite GENHD_FL_NO_PART, we still endup trying to add partitions. Flagging zoned disks with GENHD_FL_NO_PART also has the benefit to expose through sysfs the ext_range attribute with the value of 1 instead of the default DISK_MAX_PARTS, thus correctly advertizing the fact that zoned disks do not support partitions. Fixes: 5eac3eb ("block: Remove partition support for zoned block devices") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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