Re: [PATCH v3] loop: drop caches if offset or block_size are changed

[Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>]

On Tue, 2018-12-18 at 14:41 -0800, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> [ ... ]

Please post new versions of a patch as a new e-mail thread instead of
as a reply to a previous e-mail.

> [ ... ]
>
>  	if (lo->lo_offset != info->lo_offset ||
>  	    lo->lo_sizelimit != info->lo_sizelimit) {
> +		/* kill_bdev should have truncated all the pages */
> +		if (lo->lo_device->bd_inode->i_mapping->nrpages) {
> +			err = -EAGAIN;
> +			goto exit;
> +		}

Please add a pr_info() or pr_warn() statement here such that it becomes
easy for the user to figure out why EAGAIN has been returned.

>  	blk_mq_freeze_queue(lo->lo_queue);
>  
> +	/* kill_bdev should have truncated all the pages */
> +	if (lo->lo_queue->limits.logical_block_size != arg &&
> +			lo->lo_device->bd_inode->i_mapping->nrpages) {
> +		err = -EAGAIN;
> +		goto out;
> +	}

Same comment here. Additionally, please consider renaming the "out" label
into "unfreeze" or so. I think that will make the use of label names more
consistent with the rest of the block layer. Once these two comments are
addressed, feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>