From: Guo Chao Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:16:46 +0000 (-0800) Subject: loopdev: update block device size in loop_set_status() X-Git-Tag: v3.9-rc1~43^2~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=541c742a7559eb65f0e36d3e2338c2ca532a3e61;p=pandora-kernel.git loopdev: update block device size in loop_set_status() Loop device driver sometimes fails to impose the size limit on the device. Keep issuing following two commands: losetup --offset 7517244416 --sizelimit 3224971264 /dev/loop0 backed_file blockdev --getsize64 /dev/loop0 blockdev reports file size instead of sizelimit several out of 100 times. The problems are: - losetup set up the device in two ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD and LOOP_SET_STATUS64. - LOOP_SET_STATUS64 only update size of gendisk. Block device size will be updated lazily when device comes to use. If udev rushes in between the two ioctl, it will bring in a block device whose size is backing file size. If the device is not released after LOOP_SET_STATUS64 ioctl, blockdev will not see the updated size. Update block size in LOOP_SET_STATUS64 ioctl. Signed-off-by: Guo Chao Reported-by: M. Hindess Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Guo Chao Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- Reading git-diff-tree failed