This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    econet: Fix redeclaration of symbol len

to the 2.6.32-longterm tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     econet-fix-redeclaration-of-symbol-len.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.32 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.32 longterm 
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 35e412f1a1f1d57612fdc316bea4f5b86209411d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:43:04 -0700
Subject: econet: Fix redeclaration of symbol len

From: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <[email protected]>

commit 9e8342971d44ce86d8567047f5366fc1c06a75ed upstream.

Function argument len was redeclarated within the
function. This patch fix the redeclaration of symbol 'len'.

Signed-off-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
[Adjusted to apply to 2.6.32 by dann frazier <[email protected]>]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 net/econet/af_econet.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/net/econet/af_econet.c
+++ b/net/econet/af_econet.c
@@ -447,15 +447,15 @@ static int econet_sendmsg(struct kiocb *
        iov[0].iov_len = size;
        for (i = 0; i < msg->msg_iovlen; i++) {
                void __user *base = msg->msg_iov[i].iov_base;
-               size_t len = msg->msg_iov[i].iov_len;
+               size_t iov_len = msg->msg_iov[i].iov_len;
                /* Check it now since we switch to KERNEL_DS later. */
-               if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, base, len)) {
+               if (!access_ok(VERIFY_READ, base, iov_len)) {
                        mutex_unlock(&econet_mutex);
                        return -EFAULT;
                }
                iov[i+1].iov_base = base;
-               iov[i+1].iov_len = len;
-               size += len;
+               iov[i+1].iov_len = iov_len;
+               size += iov_len;
        }
 
        /* Get a skbuff (no data, just holds our cb information) */


Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.32 which might be from [email protected] 
are

/home/gregkh/linux/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32/queue-2.6.32/econet-fix-redeclaration-of-symbol-len.patch

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