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Title:
  partproke is broken on empty loopback device

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

Bug description:
  SRU Justification:

  [Impact]

  * BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION on an empty loopback device used to return ENXIO
  but now returns EINVAL, breaking partprobe due to commit
  "block: don't add or resize partition on the disk with GENHD_FL_NO_PART"
  introduced in mantic 6.5.0-17 and jammy 5.15.0-94.

  [Fix]

  * backport commit
  "block: Move checking GENHD_FL_NO_PART to bdev_add_partition()"

  [Test Plan]

  * dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/foo bs=1M count=50
  * partprobe $(losetup --find --show /tmp/foo)
  Before the fix this fails.
  After the fix it should work.

  [Where problems could occur]

  * We may see issues on disk partitions operations.

  
  Old description:
  This is with the kernel from jammy-proposed (linux-image-5.15.0-94-generic 
5.15.0-94.104).

  Do this:

  # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/file bs=1M count=50
  # partprobe "$(losetup --show --find /tmp/file)"

  Notice this very odd error message:

  Error: 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/loop2 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.

  That's a result of an ioctl changing its error code in an incompatible
  way between kernel versions 5.15.0.91.88 and 5.15.0.94.91, confusing
  partprobe.

  5.15.0.91.88:
  ioctl(3, BLKPG, {op=BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION, flags=0, datalen=152, data={start=0, 
length=0, pno=1, devname="", volname=""}}) = -1 ENXIO (No such device or 
address)

  5.15.0.94.91:
  ioctl(3, BLKPG, {op=BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION, flags=0, datalen=152, data={start=0, 
length=0, pno=1, devname="", volname=""}}) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

  This is a userspace API break which impacts GNU parted and util-linux
  (as confirmed by the util-linux maintainer).

  This issue was discovered as part of Cockpit CI here:
  https://github.com/cockpit-project/bots/pull/5793

  This issue is being discussed on LKML here (with a patch likely to
  land soon): https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/1/15/147

  lsb_release -rd:
  Description:  Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
  Release:      22.04

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