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kpartx: Fix check whether to detach loop device

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State Not Applicable, archived
Delegated to: christophe varoqui
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Christian Kastner July 13, 2016, 5:23 p.m. UTC
From: Christian Kastner <ckk@kvr.at>

When invoking kpartx -d $FOO with $FOO being a regular file, the intention is
to also detach the loop device backing $FOO using del_loop(), but this
currently doesn't happen, as can be seen by calling losetup -a afterwards.

This is because the check for the type of $FOO, prior to the del_loop() call, is
broken. S_ISREG() is called on a buffer that initially did contain the status of
$FOO, but was later overwritten with the status of the backing loop device.

This replaces the S_ISREG() test with a check for whether the loop device path
is not NULL. If it isn't, then we know that it contains the correct path, and
del_loop() can be called safely on that.

Reported as Debian bug #829496; that bug also has more information.

Signed-off-by: Christian Kastner <ckk@kvr.at>
---
 kpartx/kpartx.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Christophe Varoqui July 22, 2016, 9:45 a.m. UTC | #1
Merged.
Thanks.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org> wrote:

> From: Christian Kastner <ckk@kvr.at>
>
> When invoking kpartx -d $FOO with $FOO being a regular file, the intention
> is
> to also detach the loop device backing $FOO using del_loop(), but this
> currently doesn't happen, as can be seen by calling losetup -a afterwards.
>
> This is because the check for the type of $FOO, prior to the del_loop()
> call, is
> broken. S_ISREG() is called on a buffer that initially did contain the
> status of
> $FOO, but was later overwritten with the status of the backing loop device.
>
> This replaces the S_ISREG() test with a check for whether the loop device
> path
> is not NULL. If it isn't, then we know that it contains the correct path,
> and
> del_loop() can be called safely on that.
>
> Reported as Debian bug #829496; that bug also has more information.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Kastner <ckk@kvr.at>
> ---
>  kpartx/kpartx.c | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kpartx/kpartx.c b/kpartx/kpartx.c
> index 4de13fa..b7b4047 100644
> --- a/kpartx/kpartx.c
> +++ b/kpartx/kpartx.c
> @@ -482,14 +482,14 @@ main(int argc, char **argv){
>                                         printf("del devmap : %s\n",
> partname);
>                         }
>
> -                       if (S_ISREG (buf.st_mode)) {
> -                               if (del_loop(device)) {
> +                       if (loopdev) {
> +                               if (del_loop(loopdev)) {
>                                         if (verbose)
>                                                 printf("can't del loop :
> %s\n",
> -                                                       device);
> +                                                       loopdev);
>                                         exit(1);
>                                 }
> -                               printf("loop deleted : %s\n", device);
> +                               printf("loop deleted : %s\n", loopdev);
>                         }
>                         break;
>
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diff --git a/kpartx/kpartx.c b/kpartx/kpartx.c
index 4de13fa..b7b4047 100644
--- a/kpartx/kpartx.c
+++ b/kpartx/kpartx.c
@@ -482,14 +482,14 @@  main(int argc, char **argv){
 					printf("del devmap : %s\n", partname);
 			}
 
-			if (S_ISREG (buf.st_mode)) {
-				if (del_loop(device)) {
+			if (loopdev) {
+				if (del_loop(loopdev)) {
 					if (verbose)
 						printf("can't del loop : %s\n",
-							device);
+							loopdev);
 					exit(1);
 				}
-				printf("loop deleted : %s\n", device);
+				printf("loop deleted : %s\n", loopdev);
 			}
 			break;