1. Userspace sends the command "losetup -d" which uses the open() call
   to open the device
2. Kernel receives the ioctl command "LOOP_CLR_FD" which calls the
   function loop_clr_fd()
3. If LOOP_CLR_FD is the first command received at the time, then the
   AUTOCLEAR flag is not set and deletion of the
   loop device proceeds ahead and scans the partitions (drop/add
   partitions)

        if (disk_openers(lo->lo_disk) > 1) {
                lo->lo_flags |= LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR;
                loop_global_unlock(lo, true);
                return 0;
        }

 4. Before scanning partitions, it will check to see if any partition of
    the loop device is currently opened
 5. If any partition is opened, then it will return EBUSY:

    if (disk->open_partitions)
                return -EBUSY;
 6. So, after receiving the "LOOP_CLR_FD" command and just before the above
    check for open_partitions, if any other command
    (like blkid) opens any partition of the loop device, then the partition
    scan will not proceed and EBUSY is returned as shown in above code
 7. But in "__loop_clr_fd()", this EBUSY error is not propagated
 8. We have noticed that this is causing the partitions of the loop to
    remain stale even after the loop device is detached resulting in the
    IO errors on the partitions

Fix:

Defer the detach of loop device to release function, which is called when
the last close happens, by setting the lo_flags to LO_FLAGS_AUTOCLEAR at
the time of detach i.e in loop_clr_fd() function.

Test case involves the following two scripts:

script1.sh:

while [ 1 ];
do
        losetup -P -f /home/opt/looptest/test10.img
        blkid /dev/loop0p1
done

script2.sh:

while [ 1 ];
do
        losetup -d /dev/loop0
done

Without fix, the following IO errors have been observed:

kernel: __loop_clr_fd: partition scan of loop0 failed (rc=-16)
kernel: I/O error, dev loop0, sector 20971392 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700
        phys_seg 1 prio class 0
kernel: I/O error, dev loop0, sector 108868 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0
        phys_seg 1 prio class 0
kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev loop0p1, logical block 27201, async page
        read
Signed-off-by: Gulam Mohamed <gulam.mohamed@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240618164042.343777-1-gulam.mohamed@oracle.comSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>