[BusyBox 0000609]: losetup not working

Thu Jan 26 12:26:46 UTC 2006

The following issue has been ACKNOWLEDGED. 
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=609 
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Reported By:                bcornec
Assigned To:                BusyBox
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Project:                    BusyBox
Issue ID:                   609
Category:                   Other
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     acknowledged
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Date Submitted:             12-20-2005 05:31 PST
Last Modified:              01-26-2006 04:26 PST
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Summary:                    losetup not working
Description: 
Hello,

It seems I'm unable to have a working losetup inside my busybox.
I'm trying to mount an iso image through NFS from a busybox env launched
from PXE.

I've read http://bugs.uclibc.org/view.php?id=498  and thought I found
the issue, so I desactivated devfs, but it doesn't help.

I tried 1.01, 1.1-pre, svn version, and they all fail in a different
way:

1.01: NFS mount doesn't work :-( so I can't have access to my iso image.
But as 1.10 has some interesting features for my project, I'd prefer to
use it.

With 1.1.0-pre1 or SVN: 

# losetup /dev/loop7 /tmp/isodir/rhel3-1.iso
losetup /dev/loop7: Invalid argument

Kernel is a RHEL 3 one (2.4.21 based), loop module is loaded and attached
is my .config:

Any hint would be welcome.

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 bcornec - 12-21-05 03:00  
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A colleague using my tool has reported that it works without issue on a
RHEL4 so it could be a problem uniquely on a 2.4 based kernel. 

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 landley - 01-08-06 19:29  
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Huh.  Since svn 12582 went in Nov 29 and this bug was created Dec 20 and
you say you tried current svn, I'm assuming that didn't fix it for you. 
Despite this, I just re-checked losetup and it's working for me.  More
info?

Similarly, svn 11289 fixing NFS mount went in at the end of October, and
it worked for _somebody_...

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 bcornec - 01-11-06 07:46  
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Hello,

Sorry for the delay, I had other bugs as well to catch on my side :-)

I think I'm able to reproduce it and give you a way to reproduce it.

More context: I'm using busybox as a boot environment.

If I test it from my current environment (rhel3) it's working without
issue:

[root at localhost chroot]# mount 10.3.3.72:/writer/nfs /mnt/cdrom
[root at localhost chroot]# ll /mnt/cdrom
total 602668
-rw-r--r--    1 root     nobody   616525824 Mar 25  2004 1.iso
[root at localhost chroot]# losetup /dev/loop7  /mnt/cdrom/1.iso
[root at localhost chroot]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/loop7 /mnt/fs

Then I have access to the content of the CD.

So I tried to recreate a chroot in order to test it.

I created  links in that chroot to all busybox commands to the latest
busybox binary of today, created /dev/loop7 (mknod /dev/loop7 b 7 7),
mounted my NFS server in the chroot (mount 10.3.3.72:/writer/nfs
/mnt/cdrom)

And then:
# losetup /dev/loop7 /mnt/fs/1.iso
losetup: /dev/loop7: Invalid argument

I invoked it from outside using strace:
strace  chroot /tmp/chroot losetup /dev/loop7  /mnt/fs/1.iso

[...]
open("/mnt/fs/1.iso", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
stat64("/dev/loop7", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0644, st_rdev=makedev(7, 7), ...}) =
0
open("/dev/loop7", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE)  = 4
ioctl(4, 0x4c05, 0xbfffcec8)            = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
close(4)                                = 0
close(3)                                = 0
write(2, "losetup: ", 9losetup: )                = 9
write(2, "/dev/loop7", 10/dev/loop7)              = 10
write(2, ": Invalid argument\n", 19: Invalid argument
)    = 19
exit_group(1)                           = ?

I wonder whether the O_RDWR flags are correct ?

Now that I can reproduce it easier and that I'm able to use strace, I can
debug much more easily, so wait for your advises on what to do next.

Many thanks for your support on this.
Bruno. 

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 vodz - 01-26-06 04:26  
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I think, ioctl(fd, LOOP_*, ...) is not acceptable over NFS. 

Issue History 
Date Modified   Username       Field                    Change               
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12-20-05 05:31  bcornec        New Issue                                    
12-20-05 05:31  bcornec        Status                   new => assigned     
12-20-05 05:31  bcornec        Assigned To               => BusyBox         
12-20-05 05:31  bcornec        File Added: .config                          
12-21-05 03:00  bcornec        Note Added: 0000804                          
01-08-06 19:29  landley        Note Added: 0000877                          
01-08-06 19:29  landley        Status                   assigned => feedback
01-11-06 07:46  bcornec        Note Added: 0000925                          
01-26-06 04:26  vodz           Note Added: 0001010                          
01-26-06 04:26  vodz           Status                   feedback => acknowledged
01-26-06 04:26  vodz           Resolution               open => not fixable 
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