From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: "Moritz Müller" <moritzm.mueller@posteo.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@i4.cs.fau.de
Cc: "Philip K ." <philip@warpmail.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] floppy: hide invalid floppy disk types
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 22:07:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5ded238-9954-d802-c180-5421a2816bdd@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191208165900.25588-1-moritzm.mueller@posteo.de>
On 12/8/19 9:59 AM, Moritz Müller wrote:
> In some cases floppy disks are recognised even though no such device
> exists. In our case this has been caused by the CMOS-RAM having a few
> wrong bits. This caused a non-existent floppy disk with the type 13
> (for example) to be registered as an available device, even though it
> could not be mounted by any user.
>
> We believe this to be an instance of this bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13486
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/384579
>
> This patch adds the option FLOPPY_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPES to prevent the
> additional check that fixed the issue on our reference system, and
> increases the startup time of affected systems by over a minute.
>
> Co-developed-by: Philip K. <philip@warpmail.net>
> Signed-off-by: Philip K. <philip@warpmail.net>
> Signed-off-by: Moritz Müller <moritzm.mueller@posteo.de>
> ---
> drivers/block/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
> drivers/block/floppy.c | 6 ++++++
> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
> index 1bb8ec575352..9e6b32c50b67 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
> @@ -72,6 +72,16 @@ config AMIGA_Z2RAM
> To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
> module will be called z2ram.
>
> +config FLOPPY_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPES
> + bool "Allow floppy disks of unknown type to be registered."
> + default n
> + help
> + Select this option if you want the Kernel to register floppy
> + disks of an unknown type.
> +
> + This should usually not be enabled, because of cases where the
> + system falsely recongizes a non-existent floppy disk as mountable.
> +
> config CDROM
> tristate
> select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST
> diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> index 485865fd0412..9439444d46d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/floppy.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/floppy.c
> @@ -3949,7 +3949,9 @@ static void __init config_types(void)
> } else
> allowed_drive_mask &= ~(1 << drive);
> } else {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FLOPPY_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPES
> params = &default_drive_params[0].params;
> +#ifdef
Please don't send patches that haven't even been compiled.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-10 5:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-08 16:59 [PATCH] floppy: hide invalid floppy disk types Moritz Müller
2019-12-08 17:35 ` Randy Dunlap
2019-12-08 19:01 ` kbuild test robot
2019-12-10 5:07 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2019-12-08 19:45 Moritz Müller
2019-12-08 20:16 ` Denis Efremov
[not found] ` <87h82ajzqd.fsf@bulbul>
2019-12-09 17:04 ` Denis Efremov
2019-12-09 17:30 ` Philip K.
2019-12-09 0:32 ` kbuild test robot
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