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Am 23.09.2019 um 07:39 schrieb Joerg Vehlow:
From: Joerg Vehlow <[email protected]>

util-linux's losetup creates a loop device, if it is missing.
This is missing in busybox's implementation.

Testcase:
losetup /dev/loop1000 <somepath>
If /dev/loop1000 does not exist busybox give an error but
util-linux's losetup just creates the file

Signed-off-by: Joerg Vehlow <[email protected]>
---
  util-linux/losetup.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/util-linux/losetup.c b/util-linux/losetup.c
index cc6c2b1d5..790c41cab 100644
--- a/util-linux/losetup.c
+++ b/util-linux/losetup.c
@@ -147,10 +147,25 @@ int losetup_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
                        d = *argv++;
if (argv[0]) {
+                       struct stat statbuf;
+                       int n;
                        unsigned flags = (opt & OPT_r) ?
BB_LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY : 0;
+
                        if (opt & OPT_P) {
                                flags |= BB_LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN;
                        }
+
+                       // If the loop device does not exist, create it
+                       if (stat(d, &statbuf) != 0 && errno == ENOENT) {
+                               if (sscanf(d, LOOP_FORMAT, &n) != 1) {
+                                       errno = 0;
+                                       bb_perror_msg_and_die("Loop device
%s does not exist and does not start with " LOOP_NAME, d);
+                               }
+                               if (mknod(d, S_IFBLK|0644, makedev(7, n))
!= 0) {
+                                       bb_simple_perror_msg_and_die(d);
+                               }
+                       }
+
                        if (set_loop(&d, argv[0], offset, flags) < 0)
                                bb_simple_perror_msg_and_die(argv[0]);
                        return EXIT_SUCCESS;

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