Re: [PATCH 6/8] losetup: Prevent rare detach race

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On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 07:59:09PM +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> There is still a race risk: Device scheduled to detach is found by
> loopcxt_find_by_backing_file(), but released before loopcxt_set_status() is
> called, causing error on subsequent calls. To prevent error, retry it once
> again.

This is not merged, I have doubts we really need it. Maybe later, but
it does not seem like urgent issue (I don't remember any reports).

    Karel

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