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Commit 541c742a authored by Guo Chao's avatar Guo Chao Committed by Jens Axboe
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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: default avatarGuo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: default avatarM. Hindess <hindessm@uk.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guo Chao <yan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 5370019d
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