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From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 15:03:12 +0100
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH] lib/tst_device.c: Add exception handling of
 function tst_find_free_loopdev
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Hi,

> > Because of race condition or abnormal env, set_dev_path may be
> > return 1. And when set_dev_path return 1 in tst_find_free_loopdev,
> > we should return Immediately.


> If there exists a race condition, I firstly think of the TST_RETRY_FUNC
> macro
> to try more times for the set_dev_path. That might help to get the function
> success
> in the follow-up tries.

+1

Kind regards,
Petr