From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45992 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753694AbdGCJwV (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2017 05:52:21 -0400 Subject: Patch "mtd: bcm47xxpart: limit scanned flash area on BCM47XX (MIPS) only" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree To: zajec5@gmail.com, amit.pundir@linaro.org, computersforpeace@gmail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 11:52:21 +0200 Message-ID: <1499075541178244@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mtd: bcm47xxpart: limit scanned flash area on BCM47XX (MIPS) only to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: mtd-bcm47xxpart-limit-scanned-flash-area-on-bcm47xx-mips-only.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 2a36a5c30eab9cd1c9d2d08bd27cd763325d70c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Rafa=C5=82=20Mi=C5=82ecki?= Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 02:09:43 +0100 Subject: mtd: bcm47xxpart: limit scanned flash area on BCM47XX (MIPS) only MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Rafał Miłecki commit 2a36a5c30eab9cd1c9d2d08bd27cd763325d70c5 upstream. We allowed using bcm47xxpart on BCM5301X arch with commit: 9e3afa5f5c7 ("mtd: bcm47xxpart: allow enabling on ARCH_BCM_5301X") BCM5301X devices may contain some partitions in higher memory, e.g. Netgear R8000 has board_data at 0x2600000. To detect them we should use size limit on MIPS only. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki Signed-off-by: Brian Norris Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/bcm47xxpart.c @@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ static int bcm47xxpart_parse(struct mtd_ /* Parse block by block looking for magics */ for (offset = 0; offset <= master->size - blocksize; offset += blocksize) { - /* Nothing more in higher memory */ - if (offset >= 0x2000000) + /* Nothing more in higher memory on BCM47XX (MIPS) */ + if (config_enabled(CONFIG_BCM47XX) && offset >= 0x2000000) break; if (curr_part >= BCM47XXPART_MAX_PARTS) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zajec5@gmail.com are queue-3.18/mtd-bcm47xxpart-limit-scanned-flash-area-on-bcm47xx-mips-only.patch