[libvirt] [PATCH] Make check for /dev/loop device names stricter to avoid /dev/loop-control

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Aug 9 16:45:50 UTC 2013


From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>

Recentish (2011) kernels introduced a new device called /dev/loop-control,
which causes libvirt's detection of loop devices to get confused
since it only checks for a prefix of 'loop'. Also check that the
next character is a digit

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
---
 src/util/virfile.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/util/virfile.c b/src/util/virfile.c
index 8f0eec3..2b07ac9 100644
--- a/src/util/virfile.c
+++ b/src/util/virfile.c
@@ -546,7 +546,11 @@ static int virFileLoopDeviceOpen(char **dev_name)
 
     errno = 0;
     while ((de = readdir(dh)) != NULL) {
-        if (!STRPREFIX(de->d_name, "loop"))
+        /* Checking 'loop' prefix is insufficient, since
+         * new kernels have a dev named 'loop-control'
+         */
+        if (!STRPREFIX(de->d_name, "loop") ||
+            !c_isdigit(de->d_name[4]))
             continue;
 
         if (virAsprintf(&looppath, "/dev/%s", de->d_name) < 0)
-- 
1.8.3.1




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