Re: [PATCH 12/13] loop: remove lo_refcount and avoid lo_mutex in ->open / ->release

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Fri 25-03-22 17:23:31, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 07:54:15PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > > But for now I'd really prefer to stop moving the goalpost further and
> > > further.
> > 
> > Then, why not kill this code?
> 
> I think we should eventually do that, and I've indeed tested a patch
> that is only cosmetically different.  I wasn't really convinced we
> should do it in this series, but if there is consensus that we should
> do it now I can respin the series with a patch like this included.

I'd defer it to a separate patchset. Because as much as the change to
disallow LOOP_CLR_FD ioctl for used loop device makes sense, I'm not sure
there isn't some framework using loop devices somewhere which relies on
this just getting magically translated to setting LO_AUTOCLEAR flag. So IMO
this has a big potential of userspace visible regression and as such I'd
prefer doing it separately from the bugfixes.

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR