+ register_chrdev_region-dont-hand-out-the-local-experimental-majors.patch added to -mm tree

+ register_chrdev_region-dont-hand-out-the-local-experimental-majors.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     register_chrdev_region() don't hand out the LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL majors
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     register_chrdev_region-dont-hand-out-the-local-experimental-majors.patch

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Subject: register_chrdev_region() don't hand out the LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL majors
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

As pointed out in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7922, dynamic
chardev major allocation can hand out majors which LANANA has defined as being
for local/experimental use.

Cc: Torben Mathiasen <device@lanana.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tomas Klas <tomas.klas@mepatek.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
---

 fs/char_dev.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff -puN fs/char_dev.c~register_chrdev_region-dont-hand-out-the-local-experimental-majors fs/char_dev.c
--- a/fs/char_dev.c~register_chrdev_region-dont-hand-out-the-local-experimental-majors
+++ a/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -108,6 +108,13 @@ __register_chrdev_region(unsigned int ma
 	/* temporary */
 	if (major == 0) {
 		for (i = ARRAY_SIZE(chrdevs)-1; i > 0; i--) {
+			/*
+			 * Disallow the LANANA-assigned LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL
+			 * majors
+			 */
+			if ((60 <= i && i <= 63) || (120 <= i && i <= 127) ||
+					(240 <= i && i <= 254))
+				continue;
 			if (chrdevs[i] == NULL)
 				break;
 		}
_

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sony_apci-resume.patch
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video-sysfs-support-take-2-add-dev-argument-for-backlight_device_register-sony_acpi-fix.patch
git-alsa.patch
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git-ieee1394.patch
git-input.patch
git-libata-all.patch
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sata_sis-avoid-extern-decl-in-c.patch
mm-ide-ide-acpi-support-warning-fix.patch
git-lxdialog-fixup.patch
git-mips-kconfig-fix.patch
git-mips-prom_free_prom_memory-borkage.patch
git-mmc.patch
git-mmc-fixup.patch
git-ubi.patch
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update-smc91x-driver-with-arm-versatile-board-info.patch
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sh-add-kconfig-default.patch
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