From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 13:42:27 +0200 From: Johannes Thumshirn To: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Jan Kara , Jens Axboe , linux-block@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/15 v2] loop: Fix oops and possible deadlocks Message-ID: <20181010114227.GA12977@linux-x5ow.site> References: <20181010100415.26525-1-jack@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: List-ID: On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 07:19:00PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > On 2018/10/10 19:04, Jan Kara wrote: > > Hi, > > > > this patch series fixes oops and possible deadlocks as reported by syzbot [1] > > [2]. The second patch in the series (from Tetsuo) fixes the oops, the remaining > > patches are cleaning up the locking in the loop driver so that we can in the > > end reasonably easily switch to rereading partitions without holding mutex > > protecting the loop device. > > > > I have lightly tested the patches by creating, deleting, and modifying loop > > devices but if there's some more comprehensive loopback device testsuite, I > > can try running it. Review is welcome! > > Testing on linux-next by syzbot will be the most comprehensive. ;-) Apart from that blktests has a loop category and I think it could also be worthwhile to add the C reproducer from syzkaller to blktests. Byte, Johannes -- Johannes Thumshirn SUSE Labs jthumshirn@suse.de +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N�rnberg GF: Felix Imend�rffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG N�rnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850