On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 20:52 +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> With module parameter num_parts > 0, partition table is built on the
> ramdisk storage when loading the driver.  Unfortunately, there is an
> endianness bug in sdebug_build_parts().  So the partition table is not
> correctly initialized on big-endian systems.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.m...@gmail.com>
> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jbottom...@parallels.com>
> Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilb...@interlog.com>
> Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c
> index cb4fefa..2f39b13 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c
> @@ -2659,8 +2659,8 @@ static void __init sdebug_build_parts(unsigned char 
> *ramp,
>                              / sdebug_sectors_per;
>               pp->end_sector = (end_sec % sdebug_sectors_per) + 1;
> 
> -             pp->start_sect = start_sec;
> -             pp->nr_sects = end_sec - start_sec + 1;
> +             pp->start_sect = cpu_to_le32(start_sec);
> +             pp->nr_sects = cpu_to_le32(end_sec - start_sec + 1);
>               pp->sys_ind = 0x83;     /* plain Linux partition */
>       }
>  }


I have posted the same fix several times, e.g.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=137051617907423&w=2
Good luck!

Acked-by: Martin Peschke <mpesc...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


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