Hello Klaus Knopper.

Thanks for your bug report.

On Sat, Jun 04, 2016 at 05:35:43PM +0200, Klaus Knopper wrote:
[...]
> Losetup was able to setup compressed loopback (cloop) devices, which
> have a similar ioctl API, until recently the code in sys-utils/losetup.c
> and lib/loopdev.c was changed to only accept devices with loopbacks
> major device id.
[...]
> Suggestion: Remove the check for
> 
>               major(st.st_rdev) == LOOPDEV_MAJOR);
> 
> in is_loopdev() in lib/loopdev.c.

Could you please raise your issue on the upstream mailing list
on vger.kernel.org directly?

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson

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