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SubjectRe: [PATCH] loop: fix to a race condition due to the early registration of device
On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 03:37:50PM +0300, Anton Volkov wrote:
> The early device registration made possible a race leading to allocations
> of disks with wrong minors.
>
> This patch moves the device registration further down the loop_init
> function to make the race infeasible.
>
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Signed-off-by: Anton Volkov <avolkov@ispras.ru>
> Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>

Hi, Anton,

Were you able to reproduce this issue or was it purely theoretical? If
the former, it'd be nice if you could add a test case to blktests [1].

1: https://github.com/osandov/blktests

Thanks!
Omar

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