hotplug: fix busy loop device detection
PATCH 1/1 hotplug: fix busy loop device detection
Improve busy loop device detection after changeset 22773:02c0af2bf280
The intention is not to find the file to be mounted in the losetup -a output. What matters are existing mounted files with the same dev:inode as the new file. So the fix is to apply variable expansion which happens only without double quotes. Otherwise $dev will contain newlines for hardlinked files, as mentioned in the commit message from the changeset above.
losetup -a does also truncate long filenames to 62 chars due to ioctl limitations. This part is fixed with 2.6.37 where the filename can be obtained from sysfs. As a result very long filenames will be missed.
--- tools/hotplug/Linux/block | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
tools/hotplug/Linux/block +2 -2
@@ -280,8 +280,8 @@ mount it read-write in a guest domain." fi shared_list=$(losetup -a | - sed -n -e "s@^\([^:]\+\)\(:[[:blank:]]\[${dev}\]:${inode}[[:blank:]](${file})\)@\1@p" ) - for dev in "$shared_list" + sed -n -e "s@^\([^:]\+\)\(:[[:blank:]]\[${dev}\]:${inode}[[:blank:]](.*)\)@\1@p" ) + for dev in $shared_list do if [ -n "$dev" ] then
Olaf Hering writes ("[Xen-devel] [PATCH] hotplug: fix busy loop device detection"):
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Improve busy loop device detection after changeset 22773:02c0af2bf280
Thanks.