On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:05:21PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> Andries Brouwer wrote:
> >
> > Just tried losetup and losetup -d under 2.3.99pre8 and
> > got a kernel crash. Looking at loop.c I see that the
> > refcounting is not done correctly. Below an improvement.
> > (And a few fixed typos.)
>
> Well, this patch only made my system freeze faster (too fast to perform
> a SysRq+U/S/B).
But for which commands?
What I looked at yesterday night was the sequence
mount /fs
losetup /dev/loop0 /fs/a/b/c
losetup -d /dev/loop0
umount /fs
This would cause an Oops on 2.3.99p8. With corrected refcounting, this works
fine now. But one should not yet try to actually use the loop device.
Andries
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