The kernel automatically evaluates partition tables of storage devices.
The code for evaluating LDM partitions (in fs/partitions/ldm.c) contains
a bug that causes a kernel oops on certain corrupted LDM partitions.  A
kernel subsystem seems to crash, because, after the oops, the kernel no
longer recognizes newly connected storage devices.

The patch changes ldm_parse_vmdb() to Validate the value of vblk_size.
Signed-off-by: NTimo Warns <warns@pre-sense.de>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Acked-by: NRichard Russon <ldm@flatcap.org>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The patch below updates broken web addresses in the kernel
Signed-off-by: NJustin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Dimitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NBen Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Acked-by: NHans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: NFinn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Fix this garbage happening quite often:

==>	 sda:
	scsi 3:0:0:0: CD-ROM            TOSHIBA
==>	 sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 <sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
			    ^^^
	Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
	sr 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
==>	 sda5 sda6 sda7 >

Make "sda: sda1 ..." lines actually lines.
Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Remove own implementation of hex_to_bin().
Signed-off-by: NAndy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko@nokia.com>
Cc: "Richard Russon (FlatCap)" <ldm@flatcap.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Make the following changes to partition check code.

* Add ->bdev to struct parsed_partitions.

* Introduce read_part_sector() which is a simple wrapper around
  read_dev_sector() which takes struct parsed_partitions *state
  instead of @bdev.

* For functions which used to take @state and @bdev, drop @bdev.  For
  functions which used to take @bdev, replace it with @state.

* While updating, drop superflous checks on NULL state/bdev in ldm.c.

This cleans up the API a bit and enables better handling of IO errors
during partition check as the generic partition check code now has
much better visibility into what went wrong in the low level code
paths.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Replace the private BE16/BE32/BE64 macros with direct calls to
get_unaligned_be16/32/64.
Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__
Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Teach LDM about a new field encountered with Windows Vista.

This fixes LDM for people using Vista who have disabled drive letter
assignment from one or more volumes.  Doing this introduces a so far
unknown field in the LDM database in the VOL5 VBLK structure which
causes the LDM driver to fail to parse the VBLK structure and hence LDM
fails to parse the disk altogether.  This patch teaches the driver about
this field.

Thanks got to Ashton Mills <amills@iinet.com.au> for reporting the
problem and working with me on getting it fixed.  It is now working for
him.
Signed-off-by: NAnton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
CC: Richard Russon <ldm@flatcap.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This from a "tested" patch...
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This fixes the LDM driver so that it works with Windows Vista dynamic
disks which are subtly different to Windows 2000/XP ones.

The patch was needed to get a Vista formatted dynamic disk to be
recognized and parsed successfully.

Thanks go to Chris Teachworth for the report and testing.

Cc: Richard Russon <ldm@flatcap.org>
Signed-off-by: NAnton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Conversion of booleans to: generic-boolean.patch (2006-08-23)
Signed-off-by: NRichard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!