Re: s390 boot woe due to "block: fix busy device checking in blk_drop_partitions"

[Christoph Hellwig]

Hi Michal,

can you try the patch below?  That should solve the udev race for real
hopefully.

diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index da693e6a834e5..20dbe4cf62cf9 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -1318,6 +1318,9 @@ loop_set_status(struct loop_device *lo, const struct loop_info64 *info)
 	if (err)
 		goto out_unfreeze;
 
+	/* don't send uevents until we've finished the partition scan */
+	dev_set_uevent_suppress(disk_to_dev(lo->lo_disk), 1);
+
 	if (lo->lo_offset != info->lo_offset ||
 	    lo->lo_sizelimit != info->lo_sizelimit) {
 		/* kill_bdev should have truncated all the pages */
@@ -1377,6 +1380,7 @@ loop_set_status(struct loop_device *lo, const struct loop_info64 *info)
 	if (partscan)
 		loop_reread_partitions(lo, bdev);
 
+	dev_set_uevent_suppress(disk_to_dev(lo->lo_disk), 0);
 	return err;
 }