Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Wed, 7 Nov 2001 17:11:10 -0500 | From | Pete Zaitcev <> | Subject | Patch for kernel.real-root-dev on s390 |
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Hello,
what do you think about the attached patch. Without it, a sysctl to kernel.real-root-dev corrupts adjacent memory. Anyone cares to comment?
-- Pete
diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.9-13.1/drivers/block/rd.c linux-2.4.9-13.1pt1/drivers/block/rd.c --- linux-2.4.9-13.1/drivers/block/rd.c Tue Nov 6 19:19:21 2001 +++ linux-2.4.9-13.1pt1/drivers/block/rd.c Tue Nov 6 23:43:49 2001 @@ -704,9 +704,6 @@ static void __init rd_load_disk(int n) { -#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD - extern kdev_t real_root_dev; -#endif if (rd_doload == 0) return; diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.9-13.1/include/linux/fs.h linux-2.4.9-13.1pt1/include/linux/fs.h --- linux-2.4.9-13.1/include/linux/fs.h Tue Nov 6 19:19:10 2001 +++ linux-2.4.9-13.1pt1/include/linux/fs.h Tue Nov 6 23:46:44 2001 @@ -1471,7 +1471,7 @@ extern void mount_root(void); #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD -extern kdev_t real_root_dev; +extern unsigned int real_root_dev; extern int change_root(kdev_t, const char *); #endif diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.9-13.1/init/main.c linux-2.4.9-13.1pt1/init/main.c --- linux-2.4.9-13.1/init/main.c Tue Nov 6 19:19:19 2001 +++ linux-2.4.9-13.1pt1/init/main.c Tue Nov 6 23:46:12 2001 @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ int rows, cols; #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD -kdev_t real_root_dev; +unsigned int real_root_dev; /* do_proc_dointvec cannot handle kdev_t */ #endif int root_mountflags = MS_RDONLY; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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