Re: [PATCH v4 10/10] loop: Add LOOP_CONFIGURE ioctl

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 09:07:43AM +0200, Martijn Coenen wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 4:30 AM Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Looks acceptable to me, but I'm getting a failure applying it to
> > > for-5.8/drivers on this patch:
> > >
> > > Applying: loop: Refactor loop_set_status() size calculation
> > >
> > > So you'll probably want to respin on the right branch.
> 
> This series depends on a separate bugfix I sent to LKML earlier - see
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/31/755 . I mentioned it in [00/10] of
> this series, but perhaps I should have just included that patch.
> 
> I just verified that patch + this series still applies cleanly on your
> for-5.8/drivers tree, but if you prefer I send a v5 with that patch
> going first let me know.

You probably want to resend with the fix includes as the first patch.
And drop the truncation check now that we figured out that we don't
actually need it.