loop: optionally use ioctl(LOOP_CONFIGURE) to set up loopdevs

LOOP_CONFIGURE is added to Linux 5.8

function                                             old     new   delta
NO_LOOP_CONFIGURE (old code):
set_loop                                             784     782      -2
LOOP_CONFIGURE:
set_loop                                             784     653    -131
TRY_LOOP_CONFIGURE:
set_loop                                             784     811     +27

Based on a patch by Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libbb/Config.src b/libbb/Config.src
index 66a3ffa23..b980f19a9 100644
--- a/libbb/Config.src
+++ b/libbb/Config.src
@@ -369,3 +369,25 @@ config UNICODE_PRESERVE_BROKEN
         For example, this means that entering 'l', 's', ' ', 0xff, [Enter]
         at shell prompt will list file named 0xff (single char name
         with char value 255), not file named '?'.
+
+choice
+        prompt "Use LOOP_CONFIGURE for losetup and loop mounts"
+        default TRY_LOOP_CONFIGURE
+        help
+        LOOP_CONFIGURE is added to Linux 5.8
+        https://lwn.net/Articles/820408/
+        This allows userspace to completely setup a loop device with a single
+        ioctl, removing the in-between state where the device can be partially
+        configured - eg the loop device has a backing file associated with it,
+        but is reading from the wrong offset.
+
+config LOOP_CONFIGURE
+        bool "use LOOP_CONFIGURE, needs kernel >= 5.8"
+
+config NO_LOOP_CONFIGURE
+        bool "use LOOP_SET_FD + LOOP_SET_STATUS"
+
+config TRY_LOOP_CONFIGURE
+        bool "try LOOP_CONFIGURE, fall back to LOOP_SET_FD + LOOP_SET_STATUS"
+
+endchoice