Re: [PATCH] loop: fix to a race condition due to the early registration of device

[Jens Axboe]

On 08/07/2017 06:37 AM, Anton Volkov wrote:
> The early device registration made possible a race leading to allocations
> of disks with wrong minors.
> 
> This patch moves the device registration further down the loop_init
> function to make the race infeasible.
> 
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Added for 4.14, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe