On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:38:10 +0530, Siddh Raman Pant via Linux-kernel-mentees wrote:
The userspace can configure a loop using an ioctl call, wherein a configuration of type loop_config is passed (see lo_ioctl()'s case on line 1550 of drivers/block/loop.c). This proceeds to call loop_configure() which in turn calls loop_set_status_from_info() (see line 1050 of loop.c), passing &config->info which is of type loop_info64*. This function then sets the appropriate values, like the offset.
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Applied, thanks!
[1/1] loop: Check for overflow while configuring loop commit: f11ebc7347340d291ba032a3872e40d3283fc351
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