Allow auto-destruction of loop devices
This allows a flag to be set on loop devices so that when they are
closed for the last time, they'll self-destruct.
In general, so that we can automatically allocate loop devices (as with
losetup -f) and have them disappear when we're done with them.
In particular, right now, so that we can stop relying on the hackish
special-case in umount(8) which kills off loop devices which were set up by
'mount -oloop'. That means we can stop putting crap in /etc/mtab which
doesn't belong there, which means it can be a symlink to /proc/mounts, which
means yet another writable file on the root filesystem is eliminated and the
'stateless' folks get happier... and OLPC trac #356 can be closed.
The mount(8) side of that is at
http://marc.info/?l=util-linux-ng&m=119362955431694&w=2
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@codewiz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index b8af22e..91ebb00 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -973,6 +973,10 @@
lo->transfer = xfer->transfer;
lo->ioctl = xfer->ioctl;
+ if ((lo->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR) !=
+ (info->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR))
+ lo->lo_flags ^= LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR;
+
lo->lo_encrypt_key_size = info->lo_encrypt_key_size;
lo->lo_init[0] = info->lo_init[0];
lo->lo_init[1] = info->lo_init[1];
@@ -1331,6 +1335,10 @@
mutex_lock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
--lo->lo_refcnt;
+
+ if ((lo->lo_flags & LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR) && !lo->lo_refcnt)
+ loop_clr_fd(lo, inode->i_bdev);
+
mutex_unlock(&lo->lo_ctl_mutex);
return 0;