Patch "mtd: Disable mtdchar mmap on MMU systems" has been added to the 3.0-stable tree

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

    mtd: Disable mtdchar mmap on MMU systems

to the 3.0-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-disable-mtdchar-mmap-on-mmu-systems.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From f5cf8f07423b2677cebebcebc863af77223a4972 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 15:08:10 +0100
Subject: mtd: Disable mtdchar mmap on MMU systems

From: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>

commit f5cf8f07423b2677cebebcebc863af77223a4972 upstream.

This code was broken because it assumed that all MTD devices were map-based.
Disable it for now, until it can be fixed properly for the next merge window.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
@@ -1103,7 +1103,11 @@ static int mtd_mmap(struct file *file, s
 	resource_size_t start, off;
 	unsigned long len, vma_len;
 
-	if (mtd->type == MTD_RAM || mtd->type == MTD_ROM) {
+        /* This is broken because it assumes the MTD device is map-based
+	   and that mtd->priv is a valid struct map_info.  It should be
+	   replaced with something that uses the mtd_get_unmapped_area()
+	   operation properly. */
+	if (0 /*mtd->type == MTD_RAM || mtd->type == MTD_ROM*/) {
 		off = get_vm_offset(vma);
 		start = map->phys;
 		len = PAGE_ALIGN((start & ~PAGE_MASK) + map->size);


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.0/mtd-disable-mtdchar-mmap-on-mmu-systems.patch
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