Re: [PATCH 3.4.x] missing patches for 3.4.x part 2

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On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:17:56AM +0800, Jianguo Wu wrote:
> On 2014/4/9 13:07, Jianguo Wu wrote:
> 
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > On 2014/4/5 6:45, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> >> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 07:39:53PM +0800, Jianguo Wu wrote:
> >>> Hi Greg,
> >>>
> >>> These are the part 2 commits that I've analyzed from the list of
> >>> upstream commits that have been backported to 3.2 but missing from 3.4.
> >>>
> >>> For the 9 commits,
> >>> - 6 commits were marked for stable but can't be applied cleanly to 3.4.
> >>> - 1 commit was marked for stable and can be applied cleanly and the fix
> >>> is obviously correct, don't know why it's absent from 3.4.x. (*)
> >>> - 1 commit has no stable tag. I've found out why it was backported to 3.2.x,
> >>> and I'm sure it should be applied to 3.4.x. (**)
> >>> - 1 commit has been reverted in upstream and 3.2.x.
> >>>
> >>> Please cherry-pick those commits from 3.2.x:
> >>>
> >>> e06c33874253 Staging: zram: Fix memory leak by refcount mismatch
> >>> dccfb68c2630 Staging: zram: Fix access of NULL pointer
> >>> 498a727b33ee zram: allow request end to coincide with disksize
> >>> e1c3e37d2c1d zram: protect sysfs handler from invalid memory access
> >>> 624d1705fa1d zram: avoid access beyond the zram device
> >>> 29c303b89a1b zram: destroy all devices on error recovery path in zram_init()
> >>> fd162a76f160 zram: avoid invalid memory access in zram_exit()
> >>> 41247561dc21 zram: Fix deadlock bug in partial read/write
> >>>
> >>> (*)  The commit is 624d1705fa1d (zram: avoid access beyond the zram device)
> >>> (**) The commit is 498a727b33ee (zram: allow request end to coincide with disksize)
> >>> ---
> >>>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c   |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> >>>  drivers/staging/zram/zram_sysfs.c |   27 +++++++++++++++++++------
> >>>  2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> Can you please backport these to 3.4 properly so that I can apply them?
> >> I had to resolve issues by hand for the first two, which was fine, but
> >> the third one I had no idea what to do.
> >>
> >> So, can you just send me a series of patches that will apply properly?
> >>
> 
> 
> Hi Greg,
> Cloud you please cherry-pick these backports from 3.2.x as following order, they can be
> applied clean on top of Linux 3.4.87:
> 
> 41247561dc21 zram: Fix deadlock bug in partial read/write
> fd162a76f160 zram: avoid invalid memory access in zram_exit()
> 29c303b89a1b zram: destroy all devices on error recovery path in zram_init()
> 624d1705fa1d zram: avoid access beyond the zram device

Those all applied just fine, but:

> e1c3e37d2c1d zram: protect sysfs handler from invalid memory access

Did not :(

> 498a727b33ee zram: allow request end to coincide with disksize
> dccfb68c2630 Staging: zram: Fix access of NULL pointer

Those two did, but:

> e06c33874253 Staging: zram: Fix memory leak by refcount mismatch

did not :(

So, can you provide the two missing patches as backports?

thanks,

greg k-h
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