On Thu, 2015-10-12 at 07:30:02 UTC, xinhui wrote: > From: Pan Xinhui <xinhui....@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > When we merge two contiguous partitions whose signatures are marked > NVRAM_SIG_FREE, We need update prev's length and checksum, then write it > to nvram, not cur's. So lets fix this mistake now. > > Also use memset instead of strncpy to set the partition's name. It's > more readable if we want to fill up with duplicate chars .
Does this ever happen in practice? ie. should we backport the fix to stable kernels? Has it always been broken? cheers
