core/linux-kirkwood to 4.9.12-2

core/linux-kirkwood-dt/PKGBUILD

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ _kernelname=${pkgbase#linux}
 _desc="Marvell Kirkwood DT"
 pkgver=4.10.12
 srcver=${pkgver%.0}
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 arch=('arm')
 url="http://www.kernel.org/"
 license=('GPL2')
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ source=("https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/linux-${srcver}.tar.xz"
         "bfq2.patch::http://algo.ing.unimo.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/patches/4.10.0-v8r8/0002-block-introduce-the-BFQ-v7r11-I-O-sched-for-4.10.0.patch"
         "bfq3.patch::http://algo.ing.unimo.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/patches/4.10.0-v8r8/0003-block-bfq-add-Early-Queue-Merge-EQM-to-BFQ-v7r11-for.patch"
         "bfq4.patch::http://algo.ing.unimo.it/people/paolo/disk_sched/patches/4.10.0-v8r8/0004-Turn-BFQ-v7r11-for-4.10.0-into-BFQ-v8r8-for-4.10.0.patch"
+        'fix_shortread_on_huge_media.patch'
         'goflexhome_fdt.patch'
         'linux.preset')
 md5sums=('64ea1adbb60a311e03c24c99471db3f7'
@@ -31,11 +32,18 @@ md5sums=('64ea1adbb60a311e03c24c99471db3f7'
          'be064321d4a0e29d233ef83705642f7c'
          '75fcf5d5756144c8afdda2dce5195def'
          '26704a2b02682dad6c96e2e744887c07'
+         '79dd8cd94a574db6b2a024dec7c45a54'
          'f5a554eefbd337e71cca072e2d2cab45'
          '959e49540dac4c5e689ad9037150a360')
 
 prepare() {
   cd "${srcdir}/linux-${srcver}"
+ 
+  # Effectively reverts commit A3d549dcfbbb0ecdaa571431a27ee5da9f2466716 as it causes
+  # kernel not to be able to read beyond 8TB on a single device.
+  # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3d549dcfbbb0ecdaa571431a27ee5da9f2466716
+  # https://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=11535&p=55350#p55350
+  patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/fix_shortread_on_huge_media.patch"
 
   msg2 "Add Arch Linux ARM patch for ARMv5te plug computers"
   patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/archlinuxarm.patch"

core/linux-kirkwood-dt/fix_shortread_on_huge_media.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -ruN a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
+--- a/mm/filemap.c	2017-04-21 01:32:55.000000000 -0600
++++ b/mm/filemap.c	2017-04-23 14:10:10.140023733 -0600
+@@ -1776,10 +1776,6 @@
+ 	unsigned int prev_offset;
+ 	int error = 0;
+ 
+-	if (unlikely(*ppos >= inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes))
+-		return 0;
+-	iov_iter_truncate(iter, inode->i_sb->s_maxbytes);
+-
+ 	index = *ppos >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ 	prev_index = ra->prev_pos >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ 	prev_offset = ra->prev_pos & (PAGE_SIZE-1);

core/linux-kirkwood-dt/linux-kirkwood-dt.install

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # arg 2:  the old package version
 
 KERNEL_NAME=-kirkwood-dt
-KERNEL_VERSION=4.10.4-1-ARCH
+KERNEL_VERSION=4.10.12-2-ARCH
 
 post_install () {
   # updating module dependencies