[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "libnvdimm: fix smart data retrieval" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Apr 11 22:34:38 UTC 2016


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    libnvdimm: fix smart data retrieval

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt8.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 06fdc538d7430bedee520186713bcae99796efb1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 19:58:44 -0700
Subject: libnvdimm: fix smart data retrieval

commit 211291126698c8f047617565b2e2e7f822f86354 upstream.

It appears that smart data retrieval has been broken the since the
initial implementation.  Fix the payload size to be 128-bytes per the
specification.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/nvdimm/bus.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c b/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
index 496b9b6..5f47356 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/bus.c
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static const struct nd_cmd_desc __nd_cmd_dimm_descs[] = {
 	[ND_CMD_IMPLEMENTED] = { },
 	[ND_CMD_SMART] = {
 		.out_num = 2,
-		.out_sizes = { 4, 8, },
+		.out_sizes = { 4, 128, },
 	},
 	[ND_CMD_SMART_THRESHOLD] = {
 		.out_num = 2,
--
2.7.4





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