ramdisk size bug in 2.4.17-pre2

[Erik Mouw]

Hi,

It looks like the ramdisk driver in 2.4.17-pre2 doesn't honor the
rd_size parameter:

  root@arthur:/tmp #uname -a
  Linux arthur 2.4.17-pre2 #1 Sat Dec 1 00:47:24 CET 2001 i686 unknown
  root@arthur:/tmp #cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted 
  0
  root@arthur:/tmp #modinfo rd
  filename:    /lib/modules/2.4.17-pre2/kernel/drivers/block/rd.o
  description: <none>
  author:      <none>
  license:     "GPL"
  parm:        rd_size int, description "Size of each RAM disk in kbytes."
  parm:        rd_blocksize int, description "Blocksize of each RAM disk in bytes."
  root@arthur:/tmp #modprobe rd rd_size=8192
  RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize

So I would expect that each ramdisk is 8192kB. But:

  root@arthur:/tmp #dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram1 bs=1k count=16384
  16384+0 records in
  16384+0 records out

IOW: writing 16MB to a 8MB ramdisk happily succeeds.

The last time I tried this was with 2.4.10-ac10, which didn't have this
bug.

Erik
[who will investigate further but is currently -ENOTIME]

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