The patch titled uml: use correct type in BLKGETSIZE ioctl has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was uml-use-correct-type-in-blkgetsize-ioctl.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: uml: use correct type in BLKGETSIZE ioctl From: Nicolas George <nicolas.george@xxxxxx> I found a type mismatch in UML that makes host block devices unusable as ubd devices on x86_64 and other 64 bits systems (segfault of the mm subsystem): In block/ioctl.c, the following lines show that the BLKGETSIZE ioctl expects a pointer to a long: case BLKGETSIZE: if ((bdev->bd_inode->i_size >> 9) > ~0UL) return -EFBIG; return put_ulong(arg, bdev->bd_inode->i_size >> 9); In arch/um/os-Linux/file.c, os_file_size calls it with an int. The ioctl_list man page should be fixed as well. Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/um/os-Linux/file.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/um/os-Linux/file.c~uml-use-correct-type-in-blkgetsize-ioctl arch/um/os-Linux/file.c --- a/arch/um/os-Linux/file.c~uml-use-correct-type-in-blkgetsize-ioctl +++ a/arch/um/os-Linux/file.c @@ -320,7 +320,8 @@ int os_file_size(char *file, unsigned lo } if(S_ISBLK(buf.ust_mode)){ - int fd, blocks; + int fd; + long blocks; fd = os_open_file(file, of_read(OPENFLAGS()), 0); if(fd < 0){ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from nicolas.george@xxxxxx are - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html