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    loop: fix I/O error on fsync() in detached loop devices · 4ceddce5
    Mauricio Faria de Oliveira authored
    There's an I/O error on fsync() in a detached loop device
    if it has been previously attached.
    
    The issue is write cache is enabled in the attach path in
    loop_configure() but it isn't disabled in the detach path;
    thus it remains enabled in the block device regardless of
    whether it is attached or not.
    
    Now fsync() can get an I/O request that will just be failed
    later in loop_queue_rq() as device's state is not 'Lo_bound'.
    
    So, disable write cache in the detach path.
    
    Do so based on the queue flag, not the loop device flag for
    read-only (used to enable) as the queue flag can be changed
    via sysfs even on read-only loop devices (e.g., losetup -r.)
    
    Test-case:
    
        # DEV=/dev/loop7
    
        # IMG=/tmp/image
        # truncate --size 1M $IMG
    
        # losetup $DEV $IMG
        # losetup -d $DEV
    
    Before:
    
        # strace -e fsync parted -s $DEV print 2>&1 | grep fsync
        fsync(3)                                = -1 EIO (Input/output error)
        Warning: Error fsyncing/closing /dev/loop7: Input/output error
        [  982.529929] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev loop7, sector 0 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x800 phys_seg 0 prio class 0
    
    After:
    
        # strace -e fsync parted -s $DEV print 2>&1 | grep fsync
        fsync(3)                                = 0
    Co-developed-by: default avatarEric Desrochers <eric.desrochers@canonical.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Desrochers <eric.desrochers@canonical.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@canonical.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarGabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMing Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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