This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled mtd: parser: cmdline: Support MTD names containing one or more colons to the 4.14-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: mtd-parser-cmdline-support-mtd-names-containing-one-.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit a972dbc296519a7d6cffdaa67c4383a1b8e801c0 Author: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Apr 29 09:53:47 2020 -0700 mtd: parser: cmdline: Support MTD names containing one or more colons [ Upstream commit eb13fa0227417e84aecc3bd9c029d376e33474d3 ] Looks like some drivers define MTD names with a colon in it, thus making mtdpart= parsing impossible. Let's fix the parser to gracefully handle that case: the last ':' in a partition definition sequence is considered instead of the first one. Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ron Minnich <rminnich@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Ron Minnich <rminnich@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c b/drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c index fbd5affc0acfe..04fd845de05fb 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/cmdlinepart.c @@ -228,12 +228,29 @@ static int mtdpart_setup_real(char *s) struct cmdline_mtd_partition *this_mtd; struct mtd_partition *parts; int mtd_id_len, num_parts; - char *p, *mtd_id; + char *p, *mtd_id, *semicol; + + /* + * Replace the first ';' by a NULL char so strrchr can work + * properly. + */ + semicol = strchr(s, ';'); + if (semicol) + *semicol = '\0'; mtd_id = s; - /* fetch <mtd-id> */ - p = strchr(s, ':'); + /* + * fetch <mtd-id>. We use strrchr to ignore all ':' that could + * be present in the MTD name, only the last one is interpreted + * as an <mtd-id>/<part-definition> separator. + */ + p = strrchr(s, ':'); + + /* Restore the ';' now. */ + if (semicol) + *semicol = ';'; + if (!p) { pr_err("no mtd-id\n"); return -EINVAL;