Patch "romfs: use different way to generate fsid for BLOCK or MTD" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

romfs: use different way to generate fsid for BLOCK or MTD

to the 4.9-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:
romfs-use-different-way-to-generate-fsid-for-block-or-mtd.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

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

From: Coly Li <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 15:18:46 -0800
Subject: romfs: use different way to generate fsid for BLOCK or MTD

From: Coly Li <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit f598f82e204ec0b17797caaf1b0311c52d43fb9a ]

Commit 8a59f5d25265 ("fs/romfs: return f_fsid for statfs(2)") generates a 64bit id from sb->s_bdev->bd_dev. This is only correct when romfs is defined with CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK. If romfs is only defined with CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD, sb->s_bdev is NULL, referencing sb->s_bdev->bd_dev will triger an oops.

Richard Weinberger points out that when CONFIG_ROMFS_BACKED_BY_BOTH=y, both CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK and CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD are defined. Therefore when calling huge_encode_dev() to generate a 64bit id, I use the follow order to choose parameter,

- CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK defined
use sb->s_bdev->bd_dev
- CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK undefined and CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD defined use sb->s_dev when,
- both CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK and CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD undefined leave id as 0

When CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD is defined and sb->s_mtd is not NULL, sb->s_dev is set to a device ID generated by MTD_BLOCK_MAJOR and mtd index, otherwise sb->s_dev is 0.

This is a try-best effort to generate a uniq file system ID, if all the above conditions are not meet, f_fsid of this romfs instance will be 0. Generally only one romfs can be built on single MTD block device, this method is enough to identify multiple romfs instances in a computer.

---
 fs/romfs/super.c |   23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
 #include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/major.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 
 static struct kmem_cache *romfs_inode_cachep;

@@ -416,7 +417,22 @@ static void romfs_destroy_inode(struct i
 static int romfs_statfs(struct dentry *dentry, struct kstatfs *buf)
 {
 	struct super_block *sb = dentry->d_sb;
-	u64 id = huge_encode_dev(sb->s_bdev->bd_dev);
+	u64 id = 0;
+
+	/* When calling huge_encode_dev(),
+	 * use sb->s_bdev->bd_dev when,
+	 *   - CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK defined
+	 * use sb->s_dev when,
+	 *   - CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK undefined and
+	 *   - CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD defined
+	 * leave id as 0 when,
+	 *   - CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK undefined and
+	 *   - CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD undefined
+	 */
+	if (sb->s_bdev)
+		id = huge_encode_dev(sb->s_bdev->bd_dev);
+	else if (sb->s_dev)
+		id = huge_encode_dev(sb->s_dev);
 
 	buf->f_type = ROMFS_MAGIC;
 	buf->f_namelen = ROMFS_MAXFN;

@@ -489,6 +505,11 @@ static int romfs_fill_super(struct super
 	sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY | MS_NOATIME;
 	sb->s_op = &romfs_super_ops;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD
+	/* Use same dev ID from the underlying mtdblock device */
+	if (sb->s_mtd)
+		sb->s_dev = MKDEV(MTD_BLOCK_MAJOR, sb->s_mtd->index);
+#endif
 	/* read the image superblock and check it */
 	rsb = kmalloc(512, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!rsb)

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

queue-4.9/romfs-use-different-way-to-generate-fsid-for-block-or-mtd.patch