loop-util: drop workaround for kernel older than v5.0

Now our baseline on the kernel is v5.4.
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Yu Watanabe 2025-04-14 06:54:26 +09:00
parent cde55c44ed
commit 5e3887e6c1
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src/shared

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@ -199,21 +199,6 @@ static int loop_configure_fallback(int fd, const struct loop_config *c) {
random_u64_range(UINT64_C(240) * USEC_PER_MSEC * n_attempts/64));
}
/* Work around a kernel bug, where changing offset/size of the loopback device doesn't correctly
* invalidate the buffer cache. For details see:
*
* https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/apex/+/bef74542fbbb4cd629793f4efee8e0053b360570
*
* This was fixed in kernel 5.0, see:
*
* https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5db470e229e22b7eda6e23b5566e532c96fb5bc3
*
* We'll run the work-around here in the legacy LOOP_SET_STATUS64 codepath. In the LOOP_CONFIGURE
* codepath above it should not be necessary. */
if (c->info.lo_offset != 0 || c->info.lo_sizelimit != 0)
if (ioctl(fd, BLKFLSBUF, 0) < 0)
log_debug_errno(errno, "Failed to issue BLKFLSBUF ioctl, ignoring: %m");
/* If a block size is requested then try to configure it. If that doesn't work, ignore errors, but
* afterwards, let's validate what is in effect, and if it doesn't match what we want, fail */
if (c->block_size != 0) {