When finding or allocating a ram disk device, brd_probe() did not take
partition numbers into account so that it can result to a different
device. Consider following example (I set CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=4
for simplicity) :
$ sudo modprobe brd max_part=15
$ ls -l /dev/ram*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 0 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 16 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 32 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 48 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram3
$ sudo mknod /dev/ram4 b 1 64
$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram4 bs=4k count=256
256+0 records in
256+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.
00215578 s, 486 MB/s
namhyung@leonhard:linux$ ls -l /dev/ram*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 0 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 16 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 32 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 48 2011-05-25 15:41 /dev/ram3
brw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 64 2011-05-25 15:45 /dev/ram4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 1024 2011-05-25 15:44 /dev/ram64
After this patch, /dev/ram4 - instead of /dev/ram64 - was
accessed correctly.
In addition, 'range' passed to blk_register_region() should
include all range of dev_t that RAMDISK_MAJOR can address.
It does not need to be limited by partition numbers unless
'rd_nr' param was specified.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
struct kobject *kobj;
mutex_lock(&brd_devices_mutex);
- brd = brd_init_one(dev & MINORMASK);
+ brd = brd_init_one(MINOR(dev) >> part_shift);
kobj = brd ? get_disk(brd->brd_disk) : ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
mutex_unlock(&brd_devices_mutex);
if (rd_nr) {
nr = rd_nr;
- range = rd_nr;
+ range = rd_nr << part_shift;
} else {
nr = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT;
- range = 1UL << (MINORBITS - part_shift);
+ range = 1UL << MINORBITS;
}
if (register_blkdev(RAMDISK_MAJOR, "ramdisk"))
unsigned long range;
struct brd_device *brd, *next;
- range = rd_nr ? rd_nr : 1UL << (MINORBITS - part_shift);
+ range = rd_nr ? rd_nr << part_shift : 1UL << MINORBITS;
list_for_each_entry_safe(brd, next, &brd_devices, brd_list)
brd_del_one(brd);