block: don't set GENHD_FL_NO_PART for hidden gendisks

Hidden gendisks can't be opened using blkdev_get_*, so we can't really
reach any of the partition scanning paths or partitioning ioctls except
for the initial partition scan from add_disk.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index e9346fae48ad45213da1692a5a109ee58c240990..b1c194813e22f5e8329099115bad2fde987cdff0 100644 (file)
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ int disk_scan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode)
 {
        struct block_device *bdev;
 
-       if (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_NO_PART)
+       if (disk->flags & (GENHD_FL_NO_PART | GENHD_FL_HIDDEN))
                return -EINVAL;
        if (disk->open_partitions)
                return -EBUSY;
@@ -493,12 +493,7 @@ int __must_check device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk,
        if (ret)
                goto out_put_slave_dir;
 
-       if (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_HIDDEN) {
-               /*
-                * Don't bother scanning for partitions.
-                */
-               disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_NO_PART;
-       } else {
+       if (!(disk->flags & GENHD_FL_HIDDEN)) {
                ret = bdi_register(disk->bdi, "%u:%u",
                                   disk->major, disk->first_minor);
                if (ret)