[dm-devel] [PATCH 0/1] Fix kpart -d regression where matching devices not found

Xose Vazquez Perez xose.vazquez at gmail.com
Tue Oct 9 12:38:44 UTC 2018


Stef Walter wrote:

You should send(CC:) it also to Christophe.

> The Lorax project found a regression in kpartx -d behavior introduced
> by the following commit: 9bdfa3eb8e24b668e6c2bb882cddb0ccfe23ed5b
> 
> This patch should fix the problem. It's easy to reproduce this problem
> (I did it on Fedora 28) with the following commands:
> 
>         # kpartx -av disk.img
>         ...
>         # kpartx -dv disk.img
> 
> Notice that the loop devices and partition mappings created by the first
> command are not cleaned up by the second command.
> 
> Stef Walter (1):
>   kpartx: Use absolute paths to create mappings
> 
>  kpartx/kpartx.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)




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