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

    libata: Un-break ATA blacklist

to the 3.17-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:
     libata-un-break-ata-blacklist.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.

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


>From 1c40279960bcd7d52dbdf1d466b20d24b99176c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George Spelvin <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 07:26:38 -0400
Subject: libata: Un-break ATA blacklist

From: George Spelvin <[email protected]>

commit 1c40279960bcd7d52dbdf1d466b20d24b99176c8 upstream.

lib/glob.c provides a new glob_match() function, with arguments in
(pattern, string) order.  It replaced a private function with arguments
in (string, pattern) order, but I didn't swap the call site...

The result was the entire ATA blacklist was effectively disabled.

The lesson for today is "I f***ed up *how* badly *how* many months ago?",
er, I mean "Nobody Tests RC Kernels On Legacy Hardware".

This was not a subtle break, but it made it through an entire RC
cycle unreported, presumably because all the people doing testing
have full-featured hardware.

(FWIW, the reason for the argument swap was because fnmatch() does it that
way, and for a while implementing a full fnmatch() was being considered.)

Fixes: 428ac5fc056e0 (libata: Use glob_match from lib/glob.c)
Reported-by: Steven Honeyman <[email protected]>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71371#c21
Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Steven Honeyman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/ata/libata-core.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
+++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
@@ -4261,10 +4261,10 @@ static unsigned long ata_dev_blacklisted
        ata_id_c_string(dev->id, model_rev, ATA_ID_FW_REV, sizeof(model_rev));
 
        while (ad->model_num) {
-               if (glob_match(model_num, ad->model_num)) {
+               if (glob_match(ad->model_num, model_num)) {
                        if (ad->model_rev == NULL)
                                return ad->horkage;
-                       if (glob_match(model_rev, ad->model_rev))
+                       if (glob_match(ad->model_rev, model_rev))
                                return ad->horkage;
                }
                ad++;


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

queue-3.17/libata-un-break-ata-blacklist.patch
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