> I have not tested it yet, but I am pretty sure it won't work.  It
> looks like the patch changes the BLKRRPART path to go ahead and remove
> existing partitions when GENHD_FL_NO_PARTSCAN is set.  loop doesn't
> issue the BLKRRPART ioctl when !LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN so this won't help.
>  I think loop needs to set GENHD_FL_NO_PARTSCAN and then issue the
> ioctl regardless of the LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN flag to get the partitions
> to be removed.  I will try to test tonight.

After testing, my initial thoughts appeared to have been correct.  I had
to modify the patch as follows.  To test, simply do:

truncate -s 10m img
losetup /dev/loop0 img
parted /dev/loop0
mklabel msdos
mkpart primary ext2 1m 2m
quit
ls /dev/loop0*

Note the /dev/loop0p1 node.  Run losetup -d /dev/loop0 and see if it is
still there.