Patch "ata: ahci: don't mark HotPlugCapable Ports as external/removable" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ata: ahci: don't mark HotPlugCapable Ports as external/removable

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
ata-ahci-don-t-mark-hotplugcapable-ports-as-external-removable.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Manuel Lauss <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 16:10:05 +0100
Subject: ata: ahci: don't mark HotPlugCapable Ports as external/removable

From: Manuel Lauss <[email protected]>

commit dc8b4afc4a04fac8ee55a19b59f2356a25e7e778 upstream.

The HPCP bit is set by bioses for on-board sata ports either because they think sata is hotplug capable in general or to allow Windows to display a "device eject" icon on ports which are routed to an external connector bracket.

However in Redhat Bugzilla #1310682, users report that with kernel 4.4, where this bit test first appeared, a lot of partitions on sata drives are now mounted automatically.

This patch should fix redhat and a lot of other distros which unconditionally automount all devices which have the "removable" bit set.

---
 drivers/ata/libahci.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -1142,8 +1142,7 @@ static void ahci_port_init(struct device
 
 	/* mark esata ports */
 	tmp = readl(port_mmio + PORT_CMD);
-	if ((tmp & PORT_CMD_HPCP) ||
-	    ((tmp & PORT_CMD_ESP) && (hpriv->cap & HOST_CAP_SXS)))
+	if ((tmp & PORT_CMD_ESP) && (hpriv->cap & HOST_CAP_SXS))
 		ap->pflags |= ATA_PFLAG_EXTERNAL;
 }
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/ata-ahci-don-t-mark-hotplugcapable-ports-as-external-removable.patch