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authorBen Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>2010-01-29 20:59:53 +0000
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>2010-02-25 12:40:19 +0000
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mtd: Raise limit on block device minor numbers
add_mtd_blktrans_dev() imposes a maximum of 257 devices per block translator. This was presumably meant to prevent overflow back in the days of 8-bit minor numbers. Instead, check against MINORMASK and the limits of the partition naming scheme. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
index 85a52b3c7698..2f8c202dbd86 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c
@@ -242,9 +242,12 @@ int add_mtd_blktrans_dev(struct mtd_blktrans_dev *new)
if (new->devnum == -1)
new->devnum = last_devnum+1;
- if ((new->devnum << tr->part_bits) > 256) {
+ /* Check that the device and any partitions will get valid
+ * minor numbers and that the disk naming code below can cope
+ * with this number. */
+ if (new->devnum > (MINORMASK >> tr->part_bits) ||
+ (tr->part_bits && new->devnum >= 27 * 26))
return -EBUSY;
- }
list_add_tail(&new->list, &tr->devs);
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