From a1ecac3b0656a68259927c234e505804d33a7b83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Chinner Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:42:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] loop: Make explicit loop device destruction lazy xfstests has always had random failures of tests due to loop devices failing to be torn down and hence leaving filesytems that cannot be unmounted. This causes test runs to immediately stop. Over the past 6 or 7 years we've added hacks like explicit unmount -d commands for loop mounts, losetup -d after unmount -d fails, etc, but still the problems persist. Recently, the frequency of loop related failures increased again to the point that xfstests 259 will reliably fail with a stray loop device that was not torn down. That is despite the fact the test is above as simple as it gets - loop 5 or 6 times running mkfs.xfs with different paramters: lofile=$(losetup -f) losetup $lofile "$testfile" "$MKFS_XFS_PROG" -b size=512 $lofile >/dev/null || echo "mkfs failed!" sync losetup -d $lofile And losteup -d $lofile is failing with EBUSY on 1-3 of these loops every time the test is run. Turns out that blkid is running simultaneously with losetup -d, and so it sees an elevated reference count and returns EBUSY. But why is blkid running? It's obvious, isn't it? udev has decided to try and find out what is on the block device as a result of a creation notification. And it is racing with mkfs, so might still be scanning the device when mkfs finishes and we try to tear it down. So, make losetup -d force autoremove behaviour. That is, when the last reference goes away, tear down the device. xfstests wants it *gone*, not causing random teardown failures when we know that all the operations the tests have specifically run on the device have completed and are no longer referencing the loop device. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- drivers/block/loop.c | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file 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 + * /do something like mkfs/losetup -d 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; -- 2.20.1