block: add a hard-readonly flag to struct gendisk
Commit 20bd1d02 ("scsi: sd: Keep disk read-only when re-reading partition") addressed a long-standing problem with user read-only policy being overridden as a result of a device-initiated revalidate. The commit has since been reverted due to a regression that left some USB devices read-only indefinitely. To fix the underlying problems with revalidate we need to keep track of hardware state and user policy separately. The gendisk has been updated to reflect the current hardware state set by the device driver. This is done to allow returning the device to the hardware state once the user clears the BLKROSET flag. The resulting semantics are as follows: - If BLKROSET sets a given partition read-only, that partition will remain read-only even if the underlying storage stack initiates a revalidate. However, the BLKRRPART ioctl will cause the partition table to be dropped and any user policy on partitions will be lost. - If BLKROSET has not been set, both the whole disk device and any partitions will reflect the current write-protect state of the underlying device. Based on a patch from Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>. Reported-by: Oleksii Kurochko <olkuroch@cisco.com> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201221 Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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