From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08AC2C433F5 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2021 12:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B7660F0F for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2021 12:08:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1351657AbhIHMJY (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2021 08:09:24 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:50010 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S234758AbhIHMJV (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Sep 2021 08:09:21 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B86D96109F; Wed, 8 Sep 2021 12:08:12 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1631102893; bh=+2qr6IIO/UXLiJjbyRAgzuQXiygiL06LUjfWuxvrq7U=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=jcs7nucfDWnXMYxo5ee/D0ZZAPqmOq3Gvtv+E0miyvRG+OwrIE8sOqA4FK3hT4+wi atyLzSEjCkXrJl+bnpyYiVY1FZkXaUHxOKCkF/CqzLfbFz3j2oqiUMCBU5lTdOrIFa OxQTgGQ4h74+Oz78PjpHrzODtGnMgkj+tyADOD5M= Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 14:08:10 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Pintu Agarwal Cc: Thomas Petazzoni , Sami Tolvanen , snitzer@redhat.com, Kernelnewbies , open list , dm-devel@redhat.com, Mikulas Patocka , linux-mtd , linux-fsdevel , Phillip Lougher , agk@redhat.com Subject: Re: Kernel 4.14: Using dm-verity with squashfs rootfs - mounting issue Message-ID: References: <20210830185541.715f6a39@windsurf> <20210830211224.76391708@windsurf> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 04:57:45PM +0530, Pintu Agarwal wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 6 Sept 2021 at 21:58, Pintu Agarwal wrote: > > > On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 18:49, Pintu Agarwal wrote: > > > > > > No, but you can backport it easily. Back at > > > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2019-November/025967.html > > > > I provided backports of this feature to OpenWrt, for the 4.14 and 4.19 > > > > kernels. > > Can you please let me know where to get the below patches for > backporting to our kernel: > create mode 100644 > target/linux/generic/backport-4.14/390-dm-add-support-to-directly-boot-to-a-mapped-device.patch > create mode 100644 > target/linux/generic/backport-4.14/391-dm-init-fix-max-devices-targets-checks.patch > create mode 100644 > target/linux/generic/backport-4.14/392-dm-ioctl-fix-hang-in-early-create-error-condition.patch > create mode 100644 > target/linux/generic/backport-4.14/393-Documentation-dm-init-fix-multi-device-example.patch If you are stuck on an older kernel version, then you need to get support from the vendor that is forcing you to be on that kernel version, as you are already paying them for support. Please take advantage of that, as no one knows what is really in "your kernel". thanks, greg k-h