From 927fad7881841a58e1d88f3a6ce070eaa66ba1a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hongxu Jia Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 17:16:42 +0800 Subject: mtools: fix race issue while mtools invoked frequently While invoking mtools frequently, the unblocking request caused race issue. Here is an example of syslinux [snip] dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img bs=1024 count=144 losetup /dev/loop1 floppy.img mkdosfs /dev/loop1 syslinux -i /dev/loop1 |plain floppy: device "/proc/6351/fd/3" busy (Resource temporarily unavailable): |Cannot initialize 'S:' |Bad target s:/ldlinux.sys [snip] The idea is from: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235016 https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-os-dev/bRPUCFHoBTQ/ZjB8kjjx1vUJ Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- ...01-remove-LOCK_NB-to-use-blocking-request.patch | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++ meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools_4.0.18.bb | 1 + 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools/0001-remove-LOCK_NB-to-use-blocking-request.patch diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools/0001-remove-LOCK_NB-to-use-blocking-request.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools/0001-remove-LOCK_NB-to-use-blocking-request.patch new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..47385a582b --- /dev/null +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools/0001-remove-LOCK_NB-to-use-blocking-request.patch @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +From 5bdbfe0a63fed48104b17412854b26ee2275869a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +From: Hongxu Jia +Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:54:39 +0800 +Subject: [PATCH] remove LOCK_NB to use blocking request + +While invoking mtools frequently, the unblocking request +caused race issue. Here is an example of syslinux +[snip] +dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy.img bs=1024 count=144 +losetup /dev/loop1 floppy.img +mkdosfs /dev/loop1 +syslinux -i /dev/loop1 +|plain floppy: device "/proc/6351/fd/3" busy (Resource temporarily unavailable): +|Cannot initialize 'S:' +|Bad target s:/ldlinux.sys +[snip] + +The idea is from: +https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235016 +https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-os-dev/bRPUCFHoBTQ/ZjB8kjjx1vUJ + +Upstream-Status: Pending + +Signed-off-by: Hongxu Jia +--- + lockdev.h | 2 +- + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) + +diff --git a/lockdev.h b/lockdev.h +index 4467bc2..5a135ad 100644 +--- a/lockdev.h ++++ b/lockdev.h +@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ int lock_dev(int fd, int mode, struct device *dev) + return 0; + + #if (defined(HAVE_FLOCK) && defined (LOCK_EX) && defined(LOCK_NB)) +- if (flock(fd, (mode ? LOCK_EX : LOCK_SH)|LOCK_NB) < 0) ++ if (flock(fd, (mode ? LOCK_EX : LOCK_SH)) < 0) + #else /* FLOCK */ + + #if (defined(HAVE_LOCKF) && defined(F_TLOCK)) +-- +2.7.4 + diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools_4.0.18.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools_4.0.18.bb index dcd32ed94c..91f7b7c610 100644 --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools_4.0.18.bb +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/mtools/mtools_4.0.18.bb @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/mtools/mtools-${PV}.tar.bz2 \ file://mtools-makeinfo.patch \ file://no-x11.gplv3.patch \ file://0001-Continue-even-if-fs-size-is-not-divisible-by-sectors.patch \ + file://0001-remove-LOCK_NB-to-use-blocking-request.patch \ " SRC_URI_append_class-native = " file://disable-hardcoded-configs.patch" -- cgit 1.2.3-korg