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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blkfront: fix data size for xenbus_gather in, bl

To: Marek Marczykowski <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blkfront: fix data size for xenbus_gather in, blkfront_connect
From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 11:40:01 -0400
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On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 01:06:19PM +0200, Marek Marczykowski wrote:
> barrier variable is int, not long. This overflow caused another variable
> override: "err" (in PV code) and "binfo" (in xenlinux code -
> drivers/xen/blkfront/blkfront.c). The later caused incorrect device
> flags (RO/removable etc).

Weird, I get this:

konrad@phenom:~/work/linux$ patch -p1 < ~/for-40-blkfront 
patching file drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
patch: **** malformed patch at line 124: *info)

Any ideas? Can you send the patch as attachment please?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski <marmarek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> index 70f3b1b..6147a4e 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/xen-blkfront.c
> @@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ static void blkfront_connect(struct blkfront_info
> *info)
>       }
> 
>       err = xenbus_gather(XBT_NIL, info->xbdev->otherend,
> -                         "feature-barrier", "%lu", &barrier,
> +                         "feature-barrier", "%d", &barrier,
>                           NULL);
> 
>       /*
> 



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