Revert "block: avoid creating invalid symlink file for patitions"

hulk inclusion
category: bugfix
bugzilla: 55097
CVE: NA

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This reverts commit 375e23ab.

The patch set for partition symlink cleanup will introduce
deadlock for nbd, loop and xen-blkfront driver, so revert it.
Signed-off-by: NHou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: NJason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>

block/genhd.c

@@ -782,7 +782,6 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
 	bdev = bdget_disk(disk, 0);
 	if (bdev)
 		mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
-	disk->flags &= ~GENHD_FL_UP;
 	/* invalidate stuff */
 	disk_part_iter_init(&piter, disk,
 			     DISK_PITER_INCL_EMPTY | DISK_PITER_REVERSE);
@@ -798,6 +797,7 @@ void del_gendisk(struct gendisk *disk)
 	invalidate_partition(disk, 0);
 	bdev_unhash_inode(disk_devt(disk));
 	set_capacity(disk, 0);
+	disk->flags &= ~GENHD_FL_UP;
 	up_write(&disk->lookup_sem);
 
 	if (!(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_HIDDEN))

block/ioctl.c

@@ -50,10 +50,6 @@ static int blkpg_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct blkpg_ioctl_arg __user
 				return -EINVAL;
 
 			mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
-			if (!(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP)) {
-				mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
-				return -ENXIO;
-			}
 
 			/* overlap? */
 			disk_part_iter_init(&piter, disk,

block/partition-generic.c

@@ -525,9 +525,6 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
 	struct parsed_partitions *state = NULL;
 	struct hd_struct *part;
 	int p, highest, res;
-
-	if (!(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_UP))
-		return -ENXIO;
 rescan:
 	if (state && !IS_ERR(state)) {
 		free_partitions(state);