File util-linux-mount-reuse-loop-2.patch of Package util-linux.4952

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File util-linux-mount-reuse-loop-2.patch of Package util-linux.4952

From bdf46c4df9aa9201afce6ae29f72268c54293bd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2016 20:22:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] libmount: reuse existing loop device

According to the Al Viro[1], kernel has no way to detect that a single file is
used by multiple loop devices, and multiple mounts of the same file using
different loop devices will result in a data corruption. Exactly this now
happens, if multiple btrfs sub-volumes in one file are mounted with "-oloop".

Make use of multiple -oloop mounting the same file safe: Do a loop devices
lookup, and if a loop device is already initialized, use it.

Hopefully it is possible, as "losetup -d" will return OK, even if the device
itself is in use, and is not released.

Problems:

There is a risk of race condition between the lookup and real mount.

Once loop device is initialized read-only, kernel offers no way to turn it to
read-write. It has to fail.

References:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/26/897

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@suse.cz>
---
 libmount/src/context_loopdev.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

Index: util-linux-2.28/libmount/src/context_loopdev.c
===================================================================
--- util-linux-2.28.orig/libmount/src/context_loopdev.c
+++ util-linux-2.28/libmount/src/context_loopdev.c
@@ -210,6 +210,29 @@ int mnt_context_setup_loopdev(struct lib
 	if (rc)
 		goto done_no_deinit;
 
+	/* It is possible to mount the same file more times. If we set more
+	 * than one loop device referring to the same file, kernel has no
+	 * mechanism to detect it. To prevent data corruption, the same loop
+	 * device has to be recycled.
+	*/
+	rc = loopcxt_init(&lc, 0);
+	if (rc)
+		goto done;
+	if (backing_file && !(loopcxt_find_by_backing_file(&lc,
+			backing_file, offset, LOOPDEV_FL_OFFSET))) {
+		DBG(CXT, ul_debugobj(cxt, "using existing loop device %s",
+					loopcxt_get_device(&lc)));
+		/* Once a loop is initialized RO, there is no way to safely
+		   mount that file in R/W mode. */
+		if (loopcxt_is_readonly(&lc) && !(lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY)) {
+			rc = -EROFS;
+			goto done;
+		}
+
+		goto success;
+	}
+	loopcxt_deinit(&lc);
+
 	rc = loopcxt_init(&lc, 0);
 	if (rc == 0 && loopval) {
 		rc = loopcxt_set_device(&lc, loopval);
@@ -267,6 +290,7 @@ int mnt_context_setup_loopdev(struct lib
 		DBG(LOOP, ul_debugobj(cxt, "device stolen...trying again"));
 	} while (1);
 
+success:
 	if (!rc)
 		rc = mnt_fs_set_source(cxt->fs, loopcxt_get_device(&lc));

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