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Title:
  block/loop: No longer allows to create partitions

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in linux source package in Jammy:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  == SRU Justification ==

  -- Impact --
  In 22.04/Jammy with the GA 5.15 kernel there was an upstream change 
preventing partition table operations when GENHD_FL_NO_PART is set.
   1a721de8489f "block: don't add or resize partition on the disk with 
GENHD_FL_NO_PART"
  Beside of changing return codes and breaking some user-space that way this 
also causes loop block devices to no longer be able to have partitions manually 
created. This is because the loop block driver uses GENHD_FL_NO_PART to prevent 
active partition scans.

  -- Fix --
  This was changed in 5.19 (and thus Mantic is not affected) by introducing a 
separate flag to prevent those scans:
   b9684a71fca7 "block, loop: support partitions without scanning"
  The fix depends on a larger rewrite so it cannot be simply picked. The 
biggest change from the original is moving the check for the new flag into a 
helper function in genhd.h which checks whether a disk should be scanned for 
partitions. That function was dropped with the upstream rewrite and checking 
moved into the loop driver directly. But it felt like adjusting the helper was 
the better approach.

  Note: The upstream patch has a follow-up change submitted:
    748008e1da92 "block: don't add partitions if GD_SUPPRESS_PART_SCAN is set"
  We do _NOT_ need that in Jammy/5.15 because block/partitions/core.c:
  blk_add_partitions() checks disk_part_scan_enabled() which was where we added 
the check for the backport instead of modifying disk_scan_partitions() directly.

  -- Testcase --
  $ fallocate -l 1G /tmp/blob
  $ LOOPDEV=$(sudo losetup --find --show /tmp/blob)
  $ sudo /usr/sbin/parted -s -m -a optimal $LOOPDEV -- unit KiB mklabel gpt 
mkpart primary 0% 100%

  -- Regression Potential --
  If things go wrong it might be other devices which no longer get scanned 
automatically or other issues with the loop block driver.

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