Re: [PATCH] fs: Don't return 0 from get_anon_bdev

From: Alexandre Demers
Date: Thu Apr 03 2014 - 19:41:31 EST


It works over here, tested on 3.14-rc8 which was previously failing. You have my

Tested-by: Alexandre Demers

Alexandre Demers

On 04/03/2014 03:49 PM, Thomas BÃchler wrote:
Commit 9e30cc9595303b27b48 removed an internal mount. This
has the side-effect that rootfs now has FSID 0. Many
userspace utilities assume that st_dev in struct stat
is never 0, so this change breaks a number of tools in
early userspace.

Since we don't know how many userspace programs are affected,
make sure that FSID is at least 1.

References: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1666905
References: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/8557
Cc: 3.14 <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas BÃchler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/super.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 80d5cf2..d9fddde 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -802,7 +802,7 @@ void emergency_remount(void)
static DEFINE_IDA(unnamed_dev_ida);
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(unnamed_dev_lock);/* protects the above */
-static int unnamed_dev_start = 0; /* don't bother trying below it */
+static int unnamed_dev_start = 1; /* don't bother trying below it */
int get_anon_bdev(dev_t *p)
{

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