Replicant

Can you check whether the cm-10.1 branches of the CM kernels include those fixes (or equivalent ones). If so, please tell me exactly what patch to backport. I am not sure the one from mainline will work on the Samsung Android tree.

github search is broken, and has been for a while. (searching for CM repos containing the word "bash" or "4210" bring up nothing, even though there are repos named that.) Do you know the url for the repo you forked from? i'll keep looking for it.

last time i was looking at the kernel tree for the i9100, i noticed that there were no 9.0 branches or tags anymore. i'll look for the relevant patch in 10.1.

found what i was looking for. i believe it's this one:

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_samsung_smdk4210

sorry about all that uncertainty. i found the patch for the relevant file:

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_samsung_smdk4210/blob/17c7b6e39ed37cb9fed9bb0b66c152ea4be299c4/drivers/mmc/card/block.c

it's a pretty huge patch, changing lots of files. it looks like they may have taken a flat diff from some other git repo.

i was wondering if it would hurt to use the newer kernel versions modified by cyanogenmod. however, it could be a lot of work for the linux-libre folk. i guess you could cherry pick the changes to that file, and compare to the patch in mainline?

thanks for addressing this! :)

Galaxy S2's repo is: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_samsung_smdk4210
Galaxy S3's repo is: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_samsung_smdk4412
Now starting with CM 10.1, only the SMDK4412 kernel is used for both devices.

it's a pretty huge patch, changing lots of files. it looks like they may have taken a flat diff from some other git repo.

Yes, they actually import the kernel source code as released by Samsung which doesn't contain any git infos.

Are you sure this contains a fix?

i was wondering if it would hurt to use the newer kernel versions modified by cyanogenmod.

We're going to use the cm-10.2 branch kernels starting with the Replicant 4.2 release, so if they do contain the fix, we could use it. Now can you tell which kernel and branch from CM has or doesn't have the patch? Maybe they need to patch these issues first so that we can inherit the patches (would make more sense than only patching Replicant).

however, it could be a lot of work for the linux-libre folk. i guess you could cherry pick the changes to that file, and compare to the patch in mainline?

We do not use Linux-libre. Our kernel is directly the CyanogenMod kernel from which we removed the firmwares, so we do inherit any of their improvements. I am a bit under the impression that you thought we were using mainline Linux or Linux-libre!

after a quick visual check, it appears branches with this commit may be patched:

https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_kernel_samsung_smdk4412
    2489007e7d740ccbc3e0a202914e243ad5178787

i did a visual inspection with the mainline patch, as automatic reverse patching fails:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3550ccd

the cm-10.1, cm-10.2 and cm-11.0 branches may have that commit. i didn't download the git tree myself, but doing so may make verification easier.

regarding the linux-libre folk, i was referring to anyone who spends time de-blobbing the kernel you use. i was concerned that checking for blob changes might be hard. anyhow, i'm a fan of incremental improvements regarding sw freedom, instead of up front perfection. :-)