From e3264a4d7de147677f1995f119eba05c9abe9c1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hannes Reinecke Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:13:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Send uevents for write_protect changes Whenever a block device changes it's read-only attribute notify the userspace about it. Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- block/genhd.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index f4c64c2b303a..b89328eceee2 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -1215,6 +1215,16 @@ void put_disk(struct gendisk *disk) EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_disk); +static void set_disk_ro_uevent(struct gendisk *gd, int ro) +{ + char event[] = "DISK_RO=1"; + char *envp[] = { event, NULL }; + + if (!ro) + event[8] = '0'; + kobject_uevent_env(&disk_to_dev(gd)->kobj, KOBJ_CHANGE, envp); +} + void set_device_ro(struct block_device *bdev, int flag) { bdev->bd_part->policy = flag; @@ -1227,8 +1237,12 @@ void set_disk_ro(struct gendisk *disk, int flag) struct disk_part_iter piter; struct hd_struct *part; - disk_part_iter_init(&piter, disk, - DISK_PITER_INCL_EMPTY | DISK_PITER_INCL_PART0); + if (disk->part0.policy != flag) { + set_disk_ro_uevent(disk, flag); + disk->part0.policy = flag; + } + + disk_part_iter_init(&piter, disk, DISK_PITER_INCL_EMPTY); while ((part = disk_part_iter_next(&piter))) part->policy = flag; disk_part_iter_exit(&piter); -- GitLab