This series introduces a new ioctl that makes it possible to atomically configure a loop device. Previously, if you wanted to set parameters such as the offset on a loop device, this required calling LOOP_SET_FD to set the backing file, and then LOOP_SET_STATUS to set the offset. However, in between these two calls, the loop device is available and would accept requests, which is generally not desirable. Similar issues exist around setting the block size (LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE) and requesting direct I/O mode (LOOP_SET_DIRECT_IO). There are also performance benefits with combining these ioctls into one, which are described in more detail in the last change in the series. Note that this series depends on "loop: Call loop_config_discard() only after new config is applied." [0], which I sent as a separate patch as it fixes an unrelated bug. [0]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/3/31/755 --- v4: - Addressed review comments from Christoph Hellwig: -- Minor code cleanups -- Clarified what lo_flags LOOP_SET_STATUS can set and clear, and made that more explicit in the code (see [9/10]) -- LOOP_CONFIGURE can now also be used to configure the block size and to explicitly request Direct I/O and read-only mode. -- Explicitly reject lo_flags we don't know about in LOOP_CONFIGURE -- Renamed LOOP_SET_FD_AND_STATUS to LOOP_CONFIGURE, since the ioctl can now do things LOOP_SET_STATUS couldn't do. v3: - Addressed review comments from Christoph Hellwig: -- Factored out loop_validate_size() -- Split up the largish first patch in a few smaller ones -- Use set_capacity_revalidate_and_notify() - Fixed a variable wrongly using size_t instead of loff_t v2: - Addressed review comments from Bart van Assche: -- Use SECTOR_SHIFT constant -- Renamed loop_set_from_status() to loop_set_status_from_info() -- Added kerneldoc for loop_set_status_from_info() -- Removed dots in patch subject lines - Addressed review comments from Christoph Hellwig: -- Added missing padding in struct loop_fd_and_status -- Cleaned up some __user pointer handling in lo_ioctl -- Pass in a stack-initialized loop_info64 for the legacy LOOP_SET_FD case Martijn Coenen (10): loop: Factor out loop size validation loop: Factor out setting loop device size loop: Switch to set_capacity_revalidate_and_notify() loop: Refactor loop_set_status() size calculation loop: Remove figure_loop_size() loop: Factor out configuring loop from status loop: Move loop_set_status_from_info() and friends up loop: Rework lo_ioctl() __user argument casting loop: Clean up LOOP_SET_STATUS lo_flags handling. loop: Add LOOP_CONFIGURE ioctl drivers/block/loop.c | 407 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- include/uapi/linux/loop.h | 31 ++- 2 files changed, 281 insertions(+), 157 deletions(-) -- 2.26.2.303.gf8c07b1a785-goog
