linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] blkdev: add function to add named read-only partitions

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Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:12:46 +0000
From:   Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@...dia.com>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] blkdev: add function to add named read-only
 partitions

On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 09:56:37PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:44:40AM +0000, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > Add function bdev_add_partition_ro() which can be used by drivers to
> > register named read-only partitions on a disk device.
> > Unlike the existing bdev_add_partition() function, there is also no
> > check for overlapping partitions.
> > This new function is going to be used by the uImage.FIT parser.
> 
> Err, no.  No on has any business adding partitions to the block device
> except for the partition parser.

Well, there is a user-space ioctl for this as well[1], just that won't
set the partition to read-only and also doesn't allow naming it...

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/block/ioctl.c#n40