[LTP] [PATCH] lib/tst_device.c: Add exception handling of function tst_find_free_loopdev

[Li Wang]

Hi Gongyi,

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 4:11 PM Zhao Gongyi <zhaogongyi@huawei.com> wrote:

> Because of race condition or abnormal env, set_dev_path may be
> return 1. And when set_dev_path return 1 in tst_find_free_loopdev,
> we should return Immediately.
>

If there exists a race condition, I firstly think of the TST_RETRY_FUNC
macro
to try more times for the set_dev_path. That might help to get the function
success
in the follow-up tries.



>
> Signed-off-by: Zhao Gongyi <zhaogongyi@huawei.com>
> ---
>  lib/tst_device.c | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/tst_device.c b/lib/tst_device.c
> index c096b418b..51cf1ba7e 100644
> --- a/lib/tst_device.c
> +++ b/lib/tst_device.c
> @@ -83,8 +83,13 @@ int tst_find_free_loopdev(char *path, size_t path_len)
>                 rc = ioctl(ctl_fd, LOOP_CTL_GET_FREE);
>                 close(ctl_fd);
>                 if (rc >= 0) {
> -                       if (path)
> -                               set_dev_path(rc, path, path_len);
> +                       if (path)
> +                               if (!set_dev_path(rc, path, path_len)) {
> +                                       tst_resm(TINFO,
> +                                               "loop device not exist");
> +                                       return -1;
> +                               }
> +
>                         tst_resm(TINFO, "Found free device %d '%s'",
>                                 rc, path ?: "");
>                         return rc;
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>
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-- 
Regards,
Li Wang
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