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Bug 1878858

Summary: kernel 5.8.8 changes the return code for partition operations and breaks parted
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Brian Lane <bcl>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 32CC: acaringi, airlied, awilliam, bskeggs, dowdle, hdegoede, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jeremy, jglisse, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, kernel-maint, kkoukiou, lgoncalv, linville, masami256, mchehab, Michael.Riss, mjg59, steved
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Description Brian Lane 2020-09-14 17:39:05 UTC
1. Please describe the problem:
Running parted (eg. partprobe) on kernel 5.8.8 results in errors as it tries to add unknown partitions:

Error: Partition(s) 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 on /dev/sda have been written, but we have been unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use.  As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in use.  You should reboot now before making further changes.

FYI this is how parted/partprobe works, it expects a return code of ENXIO for the missing partitions. This has been changed to ENOMEM by the refactoring of things into block/partitions/core.c

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/block/partitions/core.c

I *think* this may be fixed in rc5 by this commit:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/block/partitions/core.c?id=88ce2a530cc9865a894454b2e40eba5957a60e1a

but I am unable to confirm this myself.


2. What is the Version-Release number of the kernel:
kernel-5.8.8-200 and later (also tested  kernel-5.9.0-0.rc4.20200911git581cb3a26baf.8.fc34 on rawhide which has the same problem)


3. Did it work previously in Fedora? If so, what kernel version did the issue
   *first* appear?  Old kernels are available for download at
   https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8 :

Yes. Started failing on kernel-5.8.8, works fine on kernel-5.8.7-200 and older.

4. Can you reproduce this issue? If so, please provide the steps to reproduce
   the issue below:

Yes. Run 'partprobe' to demonstrate the problem. There should be no output.


5. Does this problem occur with the latest Rawhide kernel? To install the
   Rawhide kernel, run ``sudo dnf install fedora-repos-rawhide`` followed by
   ``sudo dnf update --enablerepo=rawhide kernel``:

Yes, using any kernel newer than 5.8.7

6. Are you running any modules that not shipped with directly Fedora's kernel?:

No.

7. Please attach the kernel logs. You can get the complete kernel log
   for a boot with ``journalctl --no-hostname -k > dmesg.txt``. If the
   issue occurred on a previous boot, use the journalctl ``-b`` flag.

Relevant strace output from 5.8.8-200:

ioctl(3, BLKPG, {op=BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION, flags=0, datalen=152, data={start=0, length=0, pno=4, devname="", volname=""}}) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)
ioctl(3, BLKPG, {op=BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION, flags=0, datalen=152, data={start=0, length=0, pno=5, devname="", volname=""}}) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory)

(it repeats this up to partition 256).


On 5.8.7-200 it looks like this:

ioctl(3, BLKPG, {op=BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION, flags=0, datalen=152, data={start=0, length=0, pno=4, devname="", volname=""}}) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or address)
ioctl(3, BLKPG, {op=BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION, flags=0, datalen=152, data={start=0, length=0, pno=5, devname="", volname=""}}) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or address)

etc.

Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2020-09-14 21:12:49 UTC
yeah, openQA ran into this while testing the kernel updates:

https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/overview?distri=fedora&version=32&build=Update-FEDORA-2020-d6ab6157a6&groupid=2
https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/overview?distri=fedora&version=33&build=Update-FEDORA-2020-5747e0b16a&groupid=2
https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/overview?distri=fedora&version=31&build=Update-FEDORA-2020-d807dc4d9d&groupid=2

there are four install tests run per update (one BIOS and one UEFI for each of a netinst and a live image), all four failed on each of the three updates, and the failure looks exactly like this bug:

dasbus.error.DBusError: Partition(s) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 on /dev/vda have been written, but we have been unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use.  As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in use.  You should reboot now before making further changes.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2020-09-15 00:19:46 UTC
FEDORA-2020-450fc40117 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 33. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-450fc40117

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2020-09-15 00:20:17 UTC
FEDORA-2020-3c6fedeb83 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 32. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-3c6fedeb83

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2020-09-15 00:20:38 UTC
FEDORA-2020-5920a7a0b2 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 31. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-5920a7a0b2

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2020-09-15 14:54:03 UTC
FEDORA-2020-450fc40117 has been pushed to the Fedora 33 testing repository.
In short time you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2020-450fc40117`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-450fc40117

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 6 Brian Lane 2020-09-15 15:43:00 UTC
*** Bug 1879046 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2020-09-15 16:22:05 UTC
FEDORA-2020-5920a7a0b2 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 testing repository.
In short time you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2020-5920a7a0b2`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-5920a7a0b2

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2020-09-15 16:23:25 UTC
FEDORA-2020-3c6fedeb83 has been pushed to the Fedora 32 testing repository.
In short time you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --advisory=FEDORA-2020-3c6fedeb83`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-3c6fedeb83

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 9 Michael Riss 2020-09-15 21:20:25 UTC
*** Bug 1879287 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2020-09-16 14:40:08 UTC
FEDORA-2020-5920a7a0b2 has been pushed to the Fedora 31 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2020-09-16 14:44:30 UTC
FEDORA-2020-3c6fedeb83 has been pushed to the Fedora 32 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Vojtech Trefny 2020-09-18 04:59:04 UTC
*** Bug 1880203 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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