Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix large nvram access

 On Wed, Jan 11, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 23:13 schrieb Olaf Hering:

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 On Mon, Jan 09, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:

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tree da8f883f72d08f9534e9eca3bba662413b9bd865
parent d52771fce4e774fa786097d34412a057d487c697
author Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:21:44 +0100
committer Paul Mackerras [off-list ref] Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:53:31
+1100

[PATCH] powerpc: fix large nvram access

/dev/nvram uses the user-provided read/write size
for kmalloc, which fails, if a large number is passed.
This will always use a single page at most, which
can be expected to succeed.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <redacted>

 arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c |  114
+++++++++++++++++++----------------------

this change breaks my nvsetenv binary on JS20.

I think this has uncovered a bug that has been in nvsetenv for a long time.

Yeah. Dont bother, I will fix that tool.

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