From: Dave Reisner <d@falconindy.com>
To: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: loopdev regression with v2.23
Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 19:39:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130511233910.GO494@rampage> (raw)
Hi,
I have a bug report that points out that v2.23 has disallowed losetup of
a block device with an offset:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35193
As I also note in the bug report, I've bisected this to commit 293714c0d15.
I'm not clear on what the proper fix is here -- "expected_size" is set
to 0 since the fstat call is performed on a special file which has a 0
size. Is the right thing to do simply return 0 if the size of the
"backing file" is 0?
There's also the problem of the error message -- the fabricated ERANGE
return fails to also set errno=ERANGE before returning.
Cheers,
Dave
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2013-05-11 23:39 Dave Reisner [this message]
2013-05-13 9:07 ` loopdev regression with v2.23 Karel Zak
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