linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.14 053/140] fs: Dont return 0 from get_anon

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Date:	Wed, 28 May 2014 21:33:12 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Bächler <thomas@...hlinux.org>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Alexandre Demers <alexandre.f.demers@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.14 053/140] fs: Dont return 0 from get_anon_bdev

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: =?UTF-8?q?Thomas=20B=C3=A4chler?= <thomas@...hlinux.org>

commit a2a4dc494a7b7135f460e38e788c4a58f65e4ac3 upstream.

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
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bächler <thomas@...hlinux.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Tested-by: Alexandre Demers <alexandre.f.demers@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/super.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -802,7 +802,10 @@ 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 */
+/* Many userspace utilities consider an FSID of 0 invalid.
+ * Always return at least 1 from get_anon_bdev.
+ */
+static int unnamed_dev_start = 1;

 int get_anon_bdev(dev_t *p)
 {

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