loop: remove lo_refcount and avoid lo_mutex in ->open / ->release
lo_refcount counts how many openers a loop device has, but that count is already provided by the block layer in the bd_openers field of the whole-disk block_device. Remove lo_refcount and allow opens to succeed even on devices beeing deleted - now that ->free_disk is implemented we can handle that race gracefull and all I/O on it will just fail. Similarly there is a small race window now where loop_control_remove does not synchronize the delete vs the remove due do bd_openers not being under lo_mutex protection, but we can handle that just as gracefully. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220330052917.2566582-15-hch@lst.deSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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