On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:28:01PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit de9a7f6f5f1967d275311cca9163b4a3ffe9b0ae ]
>
> Actually, total amount of available minor number
> for a single major is MINORMASK + 1. So expand
> minor range when registering chrdev region.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Wu Hao <hao.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Alan Tull <atull@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/fpga/dfl.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/fpga/dfl.c b/drivers/fpga/dfl.c
> index c25217cde5ca..4b66aaa32b5a 100644
> --- a/drivers/fpga/dfl.c
> +++ b/drivers/fpga/dfl.c
> @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ static void dfl_chardev_uinit(void)
> for (i = 0; i < DFL_FPGA_DEVT_MAX; i++)
> if (MAJOR(dfl_chrdevs[i].devt)) {
> unregister_chrdev_region(dfl_chrdevs[i].devt,
> - MINORMASK);
> + MINORMASK + 1);
> dfl_chrdevs[i].devt = MKDEV(0, 0);
> }
> }
> @@ -332,8 +332,8 @@ static int dfl_chardev_init(void)
> int i, ret;
>
> for (i = 0; i < DFL_FPGA_DEVT_MAX; i++) {
> - ret = alloc_chrdev_region(&dfl_chrdevs[i].devt, 0, MINORMASK,
> - dfl_chrdevs[i].name);
> + ret = alloc_chrdev_region(&dfl_chrdevs[i].devt, 0,
> + MINORMASK + 1, dfl_chrdevs[i].name);
> if (ret)
> goto exit;
> }
Not a bugfix, so not needed for stable kernels, thanks.
greg k-h
