loopdev: sync capacity after setting it

I recently tried to mount an hfsplus file system from an image file with
a partition table by using the loop offset and sizelimit options to specify
the location of the file system.

hfsplus stores some metadata at a set offset from the end of the partition,
so it's sensitive to the device size reported by the kernel.

It worked with this:

But failed with this:

/dev/loop0: [0089]:2 (<imagefile>), offset 32768, sizelimit 102400000
/dev/loop1: [0089]:2 (<imagefile>), offset 32768, sizelimit 102400000

/proc/partitions shows the correct number of blocks to match the sizelimit.

But if I set a breakpoint in mount before the mount syscall, I could see:
102400000
102432768

The kernel loop driver will set the gendisk capacity of the device at
LOOP_SET_STATUS64 but won't sync it to the block device until one of two
conditions are met: All open file descriptors referring to the device are
closed (and it will sync when re-opened) or if the LOOP_SET_CAPACITY ioctl
is called to sync it. Since mount opens the device and passes it directly
to the mount syscall after LOOP_SET_STATUS64 without closing and reopening
it, the sizelimit argument is effectively ignroed. The capacity needs to
be synced immediately for it to work as expected.

This patch adds the LOOP_SET_CAPACITY call to loopctx_setup_device since
the device isn't yet released to the user, so it's safe to sync the capacity
immediately.

[kzak@redhat.com: - port to the current git HEAD,
                  - use uint64_t]

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

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