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| author | Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> | 2007-02-12 00:51:44 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-12 09:48:27 -0800 |
| commit | fdf892be32d84a1745fa0aee5fc60517421b8038 (patch) | |
| tree | 35adb4e95219273ed681e0fa332a86b15cde731e /block | |
| parent | 215122e1110f97a3f478829049b9840cf8fdde57 (diff) | |
[PATCH] register_blkdev(): don't hand out the LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL majors
As pointed out in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7922, dynamic
blockdev major allocation can hand out majors which LANANA has defined as
being for local/experimental use.
Cc: Torben Mathiasen <device@lanana.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tomas Klas <tomas.klas@mepatek.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
| -rw-r--r-- | block/genhd.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 457fdac4c17d..36bd3e12a6d4 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -61,6 +61,14 @@ int register_blkdev(unsigned int major, const char *name) /* temporary */ if (major == 0) { for (index = ARRAY_SIZE(major_names)-1; index > 0; index--) { + /* + * Disallow the LANANA-assigned LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL + * majors + */ + if ((60 <= index && index <= 63) || + (120 <= index && index <= 127) || + (240 <= index && index <= 254)) + continue; if (major_names[index] == NULL) break; } |