From 25e206b54b9a20e63b6f5194aeebfa13d37e015c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Oberparleiter Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:44:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] partitions: let partitions inherit policy from disk Change the partition code in fs/partitions/check.c to initialize a newly detected partition's policy field with that of the containing block device (see patch below). My reasoning is that function set_disk_ro() in block/genhd.c modifies the policy field (read-only indicator) of a disk and all contained partitions. When a partition is detected after the call to set_disk_ro(), the policy field of this partition will currently not inherit the disk's policy field. This behavior poses a problem in cases where a block device can be 'logically de- and reactivated' like e.g. the s390 DASD driver because partition detection may run after the policy field has been modified. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter Acked-by: Al Viro Makes-sense-to: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/partitions/check.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'fs') diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c index 839634026eb..51c6a748df4 100644 --- a/fs/partitions/check.c +++ b/fs/partitions/check.c @@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part, sector_t start, sector_t len) p->start_sect = start; p->nr_sects = len; p->partno = part; + p->policy = disk->policy; if (isdigit(disk->kobj.name[strlen(disk->kobj.name)-1])) snprintf(p->kobj.name,KOBJ_NAME_LEN,"%sp%d",disk->kobj.name,part); -- cgit v1.2.3