Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:40:59 +0800 | From | Wu Fengguang <> | Subject | Re: Bug in BLKBSZSET/GET ioctl ? |
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On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:28:44PM +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote: > On 12/29/2011 12:20 PM, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:51:45AM +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote: > >> Hi all: > >> > >> This is first reported to *libguestfs*: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=624335 > >> > >> Then, I looked into upstream util-linux and it seems nothing wrong. I'm not convinced that it's a kernel bug. > >> > >> produce: > >> > >> --- > >> # ./util-linux/disk-utils/blockdev --getbsz /dev/sda6 > >> 4096 > >> # ./util-linux/disk-utils/blockdev --setbsz 2048 /dev/sda6 > >> # ./util-linux/disk-utils/blockdev --getbsz /dev/sda6 > >> 4096 > >> # ./util-linux/disk-utils/blockdev --setbsz 512 /dev/sda6 > >> # ./util-linux/disk-utils/blockdev --getbsz /dev/sda6 > >> 4096 > > > > I think each blockdev invocation is working on a *new* bdev object. > > > But the address of *new* bdev is the same? > I did printk, and they all returned the same address.
Then the block size value should be reset in one of the bd_set_size() calls in __blkdev_get().
> > You'll get consistent results if somehow keep it referenced, for > > > But isn't it a bug? It seems that the setbsz has no effect?
Yeah, it does look like unexpected behavior to the end user..
Thanks, Fengguang
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