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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 22:30:31 +0900 From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>, Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.2] zram: fix pool names truncation On (08/11/15 22:33), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > found this reading the code just now. I do believe we need this > patch in 4.2 (before 4.3), because the bug breaks new devices > creation under some specific conditions -- new pool names are > getting truncated to only 3 digits and, thus, > debugfs_create_dir() fails. > > The commit message contains more details. > Hello, I have an alternative fix; a somewhat better one. We actually don't have to snprintf() there anything. We already have zram->disk->disk_name constructed exactly same way, so we can pass it to zram_meta_alloc() instead of device_id. I'll send out a patch shortly. -ss > > Andrew, can you please pick up this patch? > > > Sergey Senozhatsky (1): > zram: fix max pool limitation > > drivers/block/zram/zram_drv.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > -- > 2.5.0 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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