-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Stephen Rothwell As noted further on the this file, some block devices have a / in their name, so fix the "block:..." symlink name the same as the /sys/block name. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/partitions/check.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.16.5.orig/fs/partitions/check.c +++ linux-2.6.16.5/fs/partitions/check.c @@ -345,6 +345,7 @@ static char *make_block_name(struct gend char *name; static char *block_str = "block:"; int size; + char *s; size = strlen(block_str) + strlen(disk->disk_name) + 1; name = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); @@ -352,6 +353,10 @@ static char *make_block_name(struct gend return NULL; strcpy(name, block_str); strcat(name, disk->disk_name); + /* ewww... some of these buggers have / in name... */ + s = strchr(name, '/'); + if (s) + *s = '!'; return name; } --