linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.12 051/103] fs: Don't return 0 from get_anon

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Message-Id: <c36604fe10ee69babe452bf5f888185ef163cd39.1401371259.git.jslaby@suse.cz>
Date:	Thu, 29 May 2014 15:48:36 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Bächler <thomas@...hlinux.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 3.12 051/103] fs: Don't return 0 from get_anon_bdev

From: Thomas Bächler <thomas@...hlinux.org>

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

===============

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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
---
 fs/super.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 0225c20f8770..d127de207376 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -845,7 +845,10 @@ 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)
 {
-- 
1.9.3

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