[dm-devel] [PATCH] multipath: Fix kpartx and udevd race

[Benjamin Marzinski]

Sometimes when kpartx is used to view partition data on disk image files,
udev still has the loop device open when kpartx is trying to tear it down.
This causes the LOOP_CLR_FD ioctl to fail with EBUSY.  kpartx now retries
in this case.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
---
 kpartx/lopart.c |   16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: multipath-tools-130107/kpartx/lopart.c
===================================================================
--- multipath-tools-130107.orig/kpartx/lopart.c
+++ multipath-tools-130107/kpartx/lopart.c
@@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ set_loop (const char *device, const char
 extern int 
 del_loop (const char *device)
 {
+	int retries = 3;
 	int fd;
 
 	if ((fd = open (device, O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
@@ -295,10 +296,17 @@ del_loop (const char *device)
 		return 1;
 	}
 
-	if (ioctl (fd, LOOP_CLR_FD, 0) < 0) {
-		perror ("ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD");
-		close (fd);
-		return 1;
+	while (ioctl (fd, LOOP_CLR_FD, 0) < 0) {
+		if (errno != EBUSY || retries-- <= 0) {
+			perror ("ioctl: LOOP_CLR_FD");
+			close (fd);
+			return 1;
+		}
+		fprintf(stderr,
+			"loop: device %s still in use, retrying delete\n",
+			device);
+		sleep(1);
+		continue;
 	}
 
 	close (fd);