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Christoph Hellwig authored
early_lookup_bdev is supposed to only be called from the early boot
code, but mdtblock_early_get_bdev is called as a general fallback when
lookup_bdev fails, which is problematic because early_lookup_bdev
bypasses all normal path based permission checking, and might cause
problems with certain container environments renaming devices.

Switch to only call early_lookup_bdev when block2mtd is built-in and the
system state in not running yet.

Note that this strictly speaking changes the kernel ABI as the PARTUUID=
and PARTLABEL= style syntax is now not available during a running
systems.  They never were intended for that, but this breaks things
we'll have to figure out a way to make them available again.  But if
avoidable in any way I'd rather avoid that.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMiquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-24-hch@lst.de


Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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