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block: remove redundant GD_NEED_PART_SCAN in add_disk_final()

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add_disk_final() sets GD_NEED_PART_SCAN before calling bdev_add(),
then calls disk_scan_partitions() which sets the flag itself. The
early set is redundant and introduces a race.

Between bdev_add() and disk_scan_partitions(), concurrent openers
(multipathd, blkid, LVM) see the flag in blkdev_get_whole() and
trigger bdev_disk_changed(). When disk_scan_partitions() then runs,
it calls bdev_disk_changed() again, dropping the partitions the
concurrent opener already created before re-adding them, which can
result in transient partition disappearances.

The race is observable by inserting an msleep() between bdev_add()
and disk_scan_partitions() while running concurrent open() calls
during device bind. Without artificial delay, it manifests under
scheduling pressure during boot on systems with aggressive device
scanners (multipathd, systemd-udevd).

Therefore, do not set GD_NEED_PART_SCAN in add_disk_final(). Other
GD_NEED_PART_SCAN consumers (blkdev_get_whole(),
sd_need_revalidate()) should not be affected as the flag
is set internally by disk_scan_partitions().

The retry-on-next-open intention from commit e5cfefa97b
("block: fix scan partition for exclusively open device again")
should also not be affected as the early return paths in
disk_scan_partitions() should be unreachable at device registration
time (bd_holder is NULL and open_partitions is zero).

Fixes: e5cfefa97b ("block: fix scan partition for exclusively open device again")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Connor Williamson <connordw@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260615130715.53693-1-connordw@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Connor Williamson 2026-06-15 13:07:15 +00:00 committed by Jens Axboe
parent bd910a7660
commit 181bb9c9ea
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@ -407,10 +407,6 @@ static void add_disk_final(struct gendisk *disk)
struct device *ddev = disk_to_dev(disk);
if (!(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_HIDDEN)) {
/* Make sure the first partition scan will be proceed */
if (get_capacity(disk) && disk_has_partscan(disk))
set_bit(GD_NEED_PART_SCAN, &disk->state);
bdev_add(disk->part0, ddev->devt);
if (get_capacity(disk))
disk_scan_partitions(disk, BLK_OPEN_READ);