On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 7:16 PM Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When LOOP_CONFIGURE is used with LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN we need to propagate
> this into the GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN. LOOP_SETSTATUS does this,
> LOOP_CONFIGURE doesn't so far. Effect is that setting up a loopback
> device with partition scanning doesn't actually work when LOOP_CONFIGURE
> is issued, though it works fine with LOOP_SETSTATUS.
>
> Let's correct that and propagate the flag in LOOP_CONFIGURE too.
>
> Fixes: 3448914e8cc5("loop: Add LOOP_CONFIGURE ioctl")
>
> Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering <lennart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks, still looks good to me.
> ---
> drivers/block/loop.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
> index d18160146226..2f137d6ce169 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/loop.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
> @@ -1171,6 +1171,8 @@ static int loop_configure(struct loop_device *lo, fmode_t mode,
> if (part_shift)
> lo->lo_flags |= LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN;
> partscan = lo->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN;
> + if (partscan)
> + lo->lo_disk->flags &= ~GENHD_FL_NO_PART_SCAN;
>
> /* Grab the block_device to prevent its destruction after we
> * put /dev/loopXX inode. Later in __loop_clr_fd() we bdput(bdev).
> --
> 2.26.2
