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

To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] blkfront: fix data size for xenbus_gather in, blkfront_connect
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 16:43:39 +0100
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On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 16:40 +0100, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> 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)

   ^ the original path was lined wrapped in at least this spot

> >     }
> > 
> >     err = xenbus_gather(XBT_NIL, info->xbdev->otherend,
> > -                       "feature-barrier", "%lu", &barrier,
> > +                       "feature-barrier", "%d", &barrier,
> >                         NULL);
> > 
> >     /*
> > 
> 
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