Use the simpler mechanism attached to major_name to allocate a brd device when a currently unregistered minor is accessed. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/loop.c | 30 ++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index 41caf799df721f..9a27d4f1c08aac 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -2231,24 +2231,18 @@ static int loop_lookup(struct loop_device **l, int i) return ret; } -static struct kobject *loop_probe(dev_t dev, int *part, void *data) +static void loop_probe(dev_t dev) { + int idx = MINOR(dev) >> part_shift; struct loop_device *lo; - struct kobject *kobj; - int err; + + if (max_loop && idx >= max_loop) + return; mutex_lock(&loop_ctl_mutex); - err = loop_lookup(&lo, MINOR(dev) >> part_shift); - if (err < 0) - err = loop_add(&lo, MINOR(dev) >> part_shift); - if (err < 0) - kobj = NULL; - else - kobj = get_disk_and_module(lo->lo_disk); + if (loop_lookup(&lo, idx) < 0) + loop_add(&lo, idx); mutex_unlock(&loop_ctl_mutex); - - *part = 0; - return kobj; } static long loop_control_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, @@ -2368,14 +2362,11 @@ static int __init loop_init(void) goto err_out; - if (register_blkdev(LOOP_MAJOR, "loop")) { + if (__register_blkdev(LOOP_MAJOR, "loop", loop_probe)) { err = -EIO; goto misc_out; } - blk_register_region(MKDEV(LOOP_MAJOR, 0), range, - THIS_MODULE, loop_probe, NULL, NULL); - /* pre-create number of devices given by config or max_loop */ mutex_lock(&loop_ctl_mutex); for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) @@ -2401,16 +2392,11 @@ static int loop_exit_cb(int id, void *ptr, void *data) static void __exit loop_exit(void) { - unsigned long range; - - range = max_loop ? max_loop << part_shift : 1UL << MINORBITS; - mutex_lock(&loop_ctl_mutex); idr_for_each(&loop_index_idr, &loop_exit_cb, NULL); idr_destroy(&loop_index_idr); - blk_unregister_region(MKDEV(LOOP_MAJOR, 0), range); unregister_blkdev(LOOP_MAJOR, "loop"); misc_deregister(&loop_misc); -- 2.29.2 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel