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

    axonram: Fix bug in direct_access

to the 3.19-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     axonram-fix-bug-in-direct_access.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.19 subdirectory.

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


>From 91117a20245b59f70b563523edbf998a62fc6383 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 18:04:18 +0200
Subject: axonram: Fix bug in direct_access

From: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>

commit 91117a20245b59f70b563523edbf998a62fc6383 upstream.

The 'pfn' returned by axonram was completely bogus, and has been since
2008.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/axonram.c
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ axon_ram_direct_access(struct block_devi
        }
 
        *kaddr = (void *)(bank->ph_addr + offset);
-       *pfn = virt_to_phys(kaddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+       *pfn = virt_to_phys(*kaddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 
        return 0;
 }


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

queue-3.19/axonram-fix-bug-in-direct_access.patch
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