This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Revert "floppy: refactor open() flags handling" to the 4.7-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: revert-floppy-refactor-open-flags-handling.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f2791e7eadf437633f30faa51b30878cf15650be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 08:56:51 -0600 Subject: Revert "floppy: refactor open() flags handling" From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> commit f2791e7eadf437633f30faa51b30878cf15650be upstream. This reverts commit 09954bad448791ef01202351d437abdd9497a804. Cc: Mark Hounschell <markh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/floppy.c | 34 +++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/block/floppy.c +++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c @@ -3663,11 +3663,6 @@ static int floppy_open(struct block_devi opened_bdev[drive] = bdev; - if (!(mode & (FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE))) { - res = -EINVAL; - goto out; - } - res = -ENXIO; if (!floppy_track_buffer) { @@ -3711,20 +3706,21 @@ static int floppy_open(struct block_devi if (UFDCS->rawcmd == 1) UFDCS->rawcmd = 2; - UDRS->last_checked = 0; - clear_bit(FD_OPEN_SHOULD_FAIL_BIT, &UDRS->flags); - check_disk_change(bdev); - if (test_bit(FD_DISK_CHANGED_BIT, &UDRS->flags)) - goto out; - if (test_bit(FD_OPEN_SHOULD_FAIL_BIT, &UDRS->flags)) - goto out; - - res = -EROFS; - - if ((mode & FMODE_WRITE) && - !test_bit(FD_DISK_WRITABLE_BIT, &UDRS->flags)) - goto out; - + if (!(mode & FMODE_NDELAY)) { + if (mode & (FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE)) { + UDRS->last_checked = 0; + clear_bit(FD_OPEN_SHOULD_FAIL_BIT, &UDRS->flags); + check_disk_change(bdev); + if (test_bit(FD_DISK_CHANGED_BIT, &UDRS->flags)) + goto out; + if (test_bit(FD_OPEN_SHOULD_FAIL_BIT, &UDRS->flags)) + goto out; + } + res = -EROFS; + if ((mode & FMODE_WRITE) && + !test_bit(FD_DISK_WRITABLE_BIT, &UDRS->flags)) + goto out; + } mutex_unlock(&open_lock); mutex_unlock(&floppy_mutex); return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from axboe@xxxxxx are queue-4.7/revert-floppy-refactor-open-flags-handling.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html