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loop: LOOP_CONFIGURE: send uevents for partitions
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LOOP_CONFIGURE is, as far as I understand it, supposed to be a way to
combine LOOP_SET_FD and LOOP_SET_STATUS64 into a single syscall.  When
using LOOP_SET_FD+LOOP_SET_STATUS64, a single uevent would be sent for
each partition found on the loop device after the second ioctl(), but
when using LOOP_CONFIGURE, no such uevent was being sent.

In the old setup, uevents are disabled for LOOP_SET_FD, but not for
LOOP_SET_STATUS64.  This makes sense, as it prevents uevents being
sent for a partially configured device during LOOP_SET_FD - they're
only sent at the end of LOOP_SET_STATUS64.  But for LOOP_CONFIGURE,
uevents were disabled for the entire operation, so that final
notification was never issued.  To fix this, reduce the critical
section to exclude the loop_reread_partitions() call, which causes
the uevents to be issued, to after uevents are re-enabled, matching
the behaviour of the LOOP_SET_FD+LOOP_SET_STATUS64 combination.

I noticed this because Busybox's losetup program recently changed from
using LOOP_SET_FD+LOOP_SET_STATUS64 to LOOP_CONFIGURE, and this broke
my setup, for which I want a notification from the kernel any time a
new partition becomes available.

Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <[email protected]>
[hch: reduced the critical section]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Fixes: 3448914 ("loop: Add LOOP_CONFIGURE ioctl")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
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alyssais authored and axboe committed Mar 27, 2023
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18 changes: 9 additions & 9 deletions drivers/block/loop.c
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Expand Up @@ -1010,9 +1010,6 @@ static int loop_configure(struct loop_device *lo, fmode_t mode,
/* This is safe, since we have a reference from open(). */
__module_get(THIS_MODULE);

/* suppress uevents while reconfiguring the device */
dev_set_uevent_suppress(disk_to_dev(lo->lo_disk), 1);

/*
* If we don't hold exclusive handle for the device, upgrade to it
* here to avoid changing device under exclusive owner.
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}
}

/* suppress uevents while reconfiguring the device */
dev_set_uevent_suppress(disk_to_dev(lo->lo_disk), 1);

disk_force_media_change(lo->lo_disk, DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE);
set_disk_ro(lo->lo_disk, (lo->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY) != 0);

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1109,17 +1109,17 @@ static int loop_configure(struct loop_device *lo, fmode_t mode,
if (partscan)
clear_bit(GD_SUPPRESS_PART_SCAN, &lo->lo_disk->state);

/* enable and uncork uevent now that we are done */
dev_set_uevent_suppress(disk_to_dev(lo->lo_disk), 0);

loop_global_unlock(lo, is_loop);
if (partscan)
loop_reread_partitions(lo);

if (!(mode & FMODE_EXCL))
bd_abort_claiming(bdev, loop_configure);

error = 0;
done:
/* enable and uncork uevent now that we are done */
dev_set_uevent_suppress(disk_to_dev(lo->lo_disk), 0);
return error;
return 0;

out_unlock:
loop_global_unlock(lo, is_loop);
Expand All @@ -1130,7 +1130,7 @@ static int loop_configure(struct loop_device *lo, fmode_t mode,
fput(file);
/* This is safe: open() is still holding a reference. */
module_put(THIS_MODULE);
goto done;
return error;
}

static void __loop_clr_fd(struct loop_device *lo, bool release)
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