block: add a ->free_disk method

Add a method to notify the driver that the gendisk is about to be freed.
This allows drivers to tie the lifetime of their private data to that of
the gendisk and thus deal with device removal races without expensive
synchronization and boilerplate code.

A new flag is added so that ->free_disk is only called after a successful
call to add_disk, which significantly simplifies the error handling path
during probing.

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

diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 9589d1d59afab4de0b4c0dc1423adff45a210529..e351fac41bf25f52c38b188c0b53a59773872007 100644 (file)
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -526,6 +526,7 @@ int __must_check device_add_disk(struct device *parent, struct gendisk *disk,
 
        disk_update_readahead(disk);
        disk_add_events(disk);
+       set_bit(GD_ADDED, &disk->state);
        return 0;
 
 out_unregister_bdi:
@@ -1119,6 +1120,10 @@ static void disk_release(struct device *dev)
        xa_destroy(&disk->part_tbl);
        disk->queue->disk = NULL;
        blk_put_queue(disk->queue);
+
+       if (test_bit(GD_ADDED, &disk->state) && disk->fops->free_disk)
+               disk->fops->free_disk(disk);
+
        iput(disk->part0->bd_inode);    /* frees the disk */
 }
 

diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h
index 3bfc75a2a45098c42346282db762d115a7948713..f757f9c2871f8679ca861a61be2219b1979d73ac 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/blkdev.h
+++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h
@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ struct gendisk {
 #define GD_READ_ONLY                   1
 #define GD_DEAD                                2
 #define GD_NATIVE_CAPACITY             3
+#define GD_ADDED                       4
 
        struct mutex open_mutex;        /* open/close mutex */
        unsigned open_partitions;       /* number of open partitions */
@@ -1464,6 +1465,7 @@ struct block_device_operations {
        void (*unlock_native_capacity) (struct gendisk *);
        int (*getgeo)(struct block_device *, struct hd_geometry *);
        int (*set_read_only)(struct block_device *bdev, bool ro);
+       void (*free_disk)(struct gendisk *disk);
        /* this callback is with swap_lock and sometimes page table lock held */
        void (*swap_slot_free_notify) (struct block_device *, unsigned long);
        int (*report_zones)(struct gendisk *, sector_t sector,