6.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Damien Le Moal commit 3f9c7a108c0e8f14425384912017071b71341e3b upstream. Zoned block devices do not support partitions. However, the partition table is nevertheless still inspected, and any partition found ignored with a warning in add_partition(). While this is generally not a problem, and in fact beneficial to the user as it indicates an invalid use of a zoned block device, scanning for a partition table on the device may result in issuing read operations to offline zones (e.g. after a disk head is depopulated for disks that support head management operations). Since partitions are ignored anyway, completely disable partition scanning for zoned gendisks by setting the flag GENHD_FL_NO_PART in __add_disk(). The existing check in add_partition() is left as-is to ensure that we still get a warning if for whatever reason, despite GENHD_FL_NO_PART, we still endup trying to add partitions. Flagging zoned disks with GENHD_FL_NO_PART also has the benefit to expose through sysfs the ext_range attribute with the value of 1 instead of the default DISK_MAX_PARTS, thus correctly advertizing the fact that zoned disks do not support partitions. Fixes: 5eac3eb30c9a ("block: Remove partition support for zoned block devices") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260831025050.667758-1-dlemoal@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- block/genhd.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -448,6 +448,13 @@ static int __add_disk(struct device *par } /* + * We do not support partitions with zoned block devices, so do not try + * to scan the partitions table. + */ + if (blk_queue_is_zoned(disk->queue)) + disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_NO_PART; + + /* * If the driver provides an explicit major number it also must provide * the number of minors numbers supported, and those will be used to * setup the gendisk.