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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2012-11-28 07:22:38 -0200 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2012-11-28 07:22:38 -0200 |
| commit | d033a308d81ec83908760a15a841c2bd0d5e0ea3 (patch) | |
| tree | 647abd67987fe4d7fee80105fc823edf3f53b4f6 /drivers/block/loop.c | |
| parent | c6c22955f80f2db9614b01fe5a3d1cfcd8b3d848 (diff) | |
| parent | e23739b4ade80a3a7f87198f008f6c44a7cbc9fd (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'linus/master' into staging/for_v3.8
* linus/master: (1428 commits)
futex: avoid wake_futex() for a PI futex_q
watchdog: using u64 in get_sample_period()
writeback: put unused inodes to LRU after writeback completion
mm: vmscan: check for fatal signals iff the process was throttled
Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD"
proc: check vma->vm_file before dereferencing
UAPI: strip the _UAPI prefix from header guards during header installation
include/linux/bug.h: fix sparse warning related to BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID
Linux 3.7-rc7
powerpc/eeh: Do not invalidate PE properly
ALSA: hda - Fix build without CONFIG_PM
of/address: sparc: Declare of_iomap as an extern function for sparc again
PM / QoS: fix wrong error-checking condition
bnx2x: remove redundant warning log
vxlan: fix command usage in its doc
8139cp: revert "set ring address before enabling receiver"
MPI: Fix compilation on MIPS with GCC 4.4 and newer
MIPS: Fix crash that occurs when function tracing is enabled
MIPS: Merge overlapping bootmem ranges
jbd: Fix lock ordering bug in journal_unmap_buffer()
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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/loop.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/loop.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index e9d594fd12c..54046e51160 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -976,8 +976,21 @@ static int loop_clr_fd(struct loop_device *lo) if (lo->lo_state != Lo_bound) return -ENXIO; - if (lo->lo_refcnt > 1) /* we needed one fd for the ioctl */ - return -EBUSY; + /* + * If we've explicitly asked to tear down the loop device, + * and it has an elevated reference count, set it for auto-teardown when + * the last reference goes away. This stops $!~#$@ udev from + * preventing teardown because it decided that it needs to run blkid on + * the loopback device whenever they appear. xfstests is notorious for + * failing tests because blkid via udev races with a losetup + * <dev>/do something like mkfs/losetup -d <dev> causing the losetup -d + * command to fail with EBUSY. + */ + if (lo->lo_refcnt > 1) { + lo->lo_flags |= LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR; + mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex); + return 0; + } if (filp == NULL) return -EINVAL; |