[PATCH v3 0/29] block: Make blkdev_get_by_*() return handle

[Christian Brauner]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 12:48:11PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this is a v3 of the patch series which implements the idea of blkdev_get_by_*()
> calls returning bdev_handle which is then passed to blkdev_put() [1]. This
> makes the get and put calls for bdevs more obviously matching and allows us to
> propagate context from get to put without having to modify all the users
> (again!). In particular I need to propagate used open flags to blkdev_put() to
> be able count writeable opens and add support for blocking writes to mounted
> block devices. I'll send that series separately.
> 
> The series is based on Christian's vfs tree as of today as there is quite
> some overlap. Patches have passed some reasonable testing - I've tested block
> changes, md, dm, bcache, xfs, btrfs, ext4, swap. More testing or review is
> always welcome. Thanks! I've pushed out the full branch to:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs.git bdev_handle
> 
> to ease review / testing. Since there were not many comments for v2 and
> Christoph has acked the series I think we should start discussing how to merge
> the series. Most collisions with this series seem to happen in the filesystems
> area so VFS tree would seem as the least painful way to merge this. Jens,

I really do like this series especially struct bdev_handle and moving
the mode bits in there. I'll happily take this. So far there have only
been minor things that can easily be fixed.