Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of linux-kernel+bounces-187170-linux.lists.archive=gmail.com@vger.kernel.org designates 2604:1380:45e3:2400::1 as permitted sender) client-ip=2604:1380:45e3:2400::1;
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 10:12:29 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Gulam Mohamed <gulam.mohamed@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	axboe@kernel.dk, shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com, chaitanyak@nvidia.com,
	hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] loop: Test to detect a race condition between loop
 detach and open
Message-ID: <20240523081229.GC1086@lst.de>
References: <20240521224249.7389-1-gulam.mohamed@oracle.com> <20240521224249.7389-2-gulam.mohamed@oracle.com>
Precedence: bulk
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20240521224249.7389-2-gulam.mohamed@oracle.com>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01)

On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 10:42:49PM +0000, Gulam Mohamed wrote:
> When one process opens a loop device partition and another process detaches
> it, there will be a race condition due to which stale loop partitions are
> created causing IO errors. This test will detect the race

This isn't really a 2/2, but a single patch for a separate repository.