Add a new feature flag UBLK_F_NO_AUTO_PART_SCAN to allow users to suppress automatic partition scanning when starting a ublk device.

This is useful for network-backed devices where partition scanning can cause issues: - Partition scan triggers synchronous I/O during device startup - If userspace server crashes during scan, recovery is problematic - For remotely-managed devices, partition probing may not be needed

Users can manually trigger partition scanning later when appropriate using standard tools (e.g., partprobe, blockdev --rereadpt).

Reported-by: Yoav Cohen yoav@nvidia.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/DM4PR12MB63280C5637917C071C2F0D65A9A8A@D... Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ming Lei ming.lei@redhat.com ---

- suggest to backport to stable, which is useful for avoiding problematic recovery, also the change is simple enough

drivers/block/ublk_drv.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- include/uapi/linux/ublk_cmd.h | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c b/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c index 78f3e22151b9..ca6ec8ed443f 100644 --- a/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c +++ b/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c @@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ | UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG \ | UBLK_F_QUIESCE \ | UBLK_F_PER_IO_DAEMON \ - | UBLK_F_BUF_REG_OFF_DAEMON) + | UBLK_F_BUF_REG_OFF_DAEMON \ + | UBLK_F_NO_AUTO_PART_SCAN)

#define UBLK_F_ALL_RECOVERY_FLAGS (UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY \ | UBLK_F_USER_RECOVERY_REISSUE \ @@ -2930,8 +2931,13 @@ static int ublk_ctrl_start_dev(struct ublk_device *ub,

ublk_apply_params(ub);

- /* don't probe partitions if any daemon task is un-trusted */ - if (ub->unprivileged_daemons) + /* + * Don't probe partitions if: + * - any daemon task is un-trusted, or + * - user explicitly requested to suppress partition scan + */ + if (ub->unprivileged_daemons || + (ub->dev_info.flags & UBLK_F_NO_AUTO_PART_SCAN)) set_bit(GD_SUPPRESS_PART_SCAN, &disk->state);

ublk_get_device(ub); @@ -2947,6 +2953,10 @@ static int ublk_ctrl_start_dev(struct ublk_device *ub, if (ret) goto out_put_cdev;

+ /* allow user to probe partitions from userspace */ + if (!ub->unprivileged_daemons && + (ub->dev_info.flags & UBLK_F_NO_AUTO_PART_SCAN)) + clear_bit(GD_SUPPRESS_PART_SCAN, &disk->state); set_bit(UB_STATE_USED, &ub->state);

out_put_cdev: diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ublk_cmd.h b/include/uapi/linux/ublk_cmd.h index ec77dabba45b..0827db14a215 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/ublk_cmd.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ublk_cmd.h @@ -311,6 +311,14 @@ */ #define UBLK_F_BUF_REG_OFF_DAEMON (1ULL << 14)

+/* + * If this feature is set, the kernel will not automatically scan for partitions + * when the device is started. This is useful for network-backed devices where + * partition scanning can cause deadlocks if the userspace server crashes during + * the scan. Users can manually trigger partition scanning later when appropriate. + */ +#define UBLK_F_NO_AUTO_PART_SCAN (1ULL << 15) + /* device state */ #define UBLK_S_DEV_DEAD 0 #define UBLK_S_DEV_LIVE 1