[PATCH] mtd: block2mtd: fix recursive call of mtd_writev
Artem Bityutskiy
artem.bityutskiy at linux.intel.com
Thu May 24 03:48:39 EDT 2012
On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 00:17 +0200, Gabor Juhos wrote:
> The 'mtd_writev' interface calls the function assigned
> to the '_write' field of a given mtd device if that is
> not NULL. The block2mtd driver sets the '_writev' field
> to the 'mtd_writev' function itself and thus causes a
> endless loop.
>
> This is caused by 1dbebd32562b3c2caeca35960e5cb00bfcc12900
> (mtd: harmonize mtd_writev usage).
>
> Remove the assignment from the block2mtd driver to fix the
> issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg at openwrt.org>
> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Amended the "stable" tag and pushed to l2-mtd.git, thanks:
Cc: stable at kernel.org [3.3+]
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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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