From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:51:44 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] register_blkdev(): don't hand out the LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL majors
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~31122^2~212
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fdf892be32d84a1745fa0aee5fc60517421b8038;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

[PATCH] register_blkdev(): don't hand out the LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL majors

As pointed out in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7922, dynamic
blockdev major allocation can hand out majors which LANANA has defined as
being for local/experimental use.

Cc: Torben Mathiasen <device@lanana.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tomas Klas <tomas.klas@mepatek.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c
index 457fdac4c17d..36bd3e12a6d4 100644
--- a/block/genhd.c
+++ b/block/genhd.c
@@ -61,6 +61,14 @@ int register_blkdev(unsigned int major, const char *name)
 	/* temporary */
 	if (major == 0) {
 		for (index = ARRAY_SIZE(major_names)-1; index > 0; index--) {
+			/*
+			 * Disallow the LANANA-assigned LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL
+			 * majors
+			 */
+			if ((60 <= index && index <= 63) ||
+					(120 <= index && index <= 127) ||
+					(240 <= index && index <= 254))
+				continue;
 			if (major_names[index] == NULL)
 				break;
 		}