Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] loop: set GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN after blkdev_reread_part()

From: Jan Kara
Date: Fri Feb 22 2019 - 06:47:24 EST


On Thu 21-02-19 23:33:43, Dongli Zhang wrote:
> Commit 0da03cab87e6
> ("loop: Fix deadlock when calling blkdev_reread_part()") moves
> blkdev_reread_part() out of the loop_ctl_mutex. However,
> GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN is set before __blkdev_reread_part(). As a result,
> __blkdev_reread_part() will fail the check of GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN and
> will not rescan the loop device to delete all partitions.
>
> Below are steps to reproduce the issue:
>
> step1 # dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp.raw bs=1M count=100
> step2 # losetup -P /dev/loop0 tmp.raw
> step3 # parted /dev/loop0 mklabel gpt
> step4 # parted -a none -s /dev/loop0 mkpart primary 64s 1
> step5 # losetup -d /dev/loop0
>
> Step5 will not be able to delete /dev/loop0p1 (introduced by step4) and
> there is below kernel warning message:
>
> [ 464.414043] __loop_clr_fd: partition scan of loop0 failed (rc=-22)
>
> This patch sets GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN after blkdev_reread_part().
>
> Fixes: 0da03cab87e6 ("loop: Fix deadlock when calling blkdev_reread_part()")
> Signed-off-by: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changed since v1:
> * move the setting of lo->lo_state to Lo_unbound after partscan has finished as well
> (suggested by Jan Kara)
>
> drivers/block/loop.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Thanks the patch looks good! Just one nit below:

> diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
> index 7908673..a13f5dc 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/loop.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
> @@ -1034,6 +1034,16 @@ loop_init_xfer(struct loop_device *lo, struct loop_func_table *xfer,
> return err;
> }
>
> +static void loop_disable_partscan(struct loop_device *lo)
> +{

I don't think there's any benefit in having this small function with a single
caller and furthermore with the subtle sideeffect that it changes lo_state.
So I'd just put the code inline in __loop_clr_fd(). With that you can add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR