linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V6 for-6.11/block] loop: Fix a race between loop detach and loop open

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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:11:08 -0600
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To: linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 Gulam Mohamed <gulam.mohamed@...cle.com>
Cc: yukuai1@...weicloud.com, hch@....de
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 for-6.11/block] loop: Fix a race between loop detach
 and loop open


On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:40:42 +0000, Gulam Mohamed wrote:
> 1. Userspace sends the command "losetup -d" which uses the open() call
>    to open the device
> 2. Kernel receives the ioctl command "LOOP_CLR_FD" which calls the
>    function loop_clr_fd()
> 3. If LOOP_CLR_FD is the first command received at the time, then the
>    AUTOCLEAR flag is not set and deletion of the
>    loop device proceeds ahead and scans the partitions (drop/add
>    partitions)
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] loop: Fix a race between loop detach and loop open
      commit: 18048c1af7836b8e31739d9eaefebc2bf76261f7

Best regards,
-- 
Jens Axboe