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http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=96c5865559cee0f9cbc5173f3c949f6ce3525581
Commit: 96c5865559cee0f9cbc5173f3c949f6ce3525581
Parent: a3b81113fb6658629f4ebaabf8dd3067cd341020
Author: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Wed Feb 6 01:36:27 2008 -0800
Committer: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Wed Feb 6 10:41:01 2008 -0800
Allow auto-destruction of loop devices
This allows a flag to be set on loop devices so that when they are
closed for the last time, they'll self-destruct.
In general, so that we can automatically allocate loop devices (as with
losetup -f) and have them disappear when we're done with them.
In particular, right now, so that we can stop relying on the hackish
special-case in umount(8) which kills off loop devices which were set up by
'mount -oloop'. That means we can stop putting crap in /etc/mtab which
doesn't belong there, which means it can be a symlink to /proc/mounts, which
means yet another writable file on the root filesystem is eliminated and the
'stateless' folks get happier... and OLPC trac #356 can be closed.
The mount(8) side of that is at
http://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=119362955431694&w=2
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Bernardo Innocenti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/block/loop.c | 8 ++++++++
include/linux/loop.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index b8af22e..91ebb00 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -973,6 +973,10 @@ loop_set_status(struct loop_device *lo, const struct
loop_info64 *info)
lo->transfer = xfer->transfer;
lo->ioctl = xfer->ioctl;
+ if ((lo->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR) !=
+ (info->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR))
+ lo->lo_flags ^= LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR;
+
lo->lo_encrypt_key_size = info->lo_encrypt_key_size;
lo->lo_init[0] = info->lo_init[0];
lo->lo_init[1] = info->lo_init[1];
@@ -1331,6 +1335,10 @@ static int lo_release(struct inode *inode, struct file
*file)
mutex_lock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
--lo->lo_refcnt;
+
+ if ((lo->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR) && !lo->lo_refcnt)
+ loop_clr_fd(lo, inode->i_bdev);
+
mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
return 0;
diff --git a/include/linux/loop.h b/include/linux/loop.h
index 26a0a10..46169a7 100644
--- a/include/linux/loop.h
+++ b/include/linux/loop.h
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ struct loop_device {
enum {
LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY = 1,
LO_FLAGS_USE_AOPS = 2,
+ LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR = 4,
};
#include <asm/posix_types.h> /* for __kernel_old_dev_t */
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