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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix nasty 32-bit overflow bug in buffer i/o code.
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:24:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFyXgMO4ADNMSQ81rwSRMkOSFvvig9LA+SJXYuov58HZJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFyYpe=oyF9yVqF3E6t4ZCpHAdnLj1g36FWUDZydW9mdgQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Ugh. Does the simpler patch to just pass in "block" work as well?

Ugh, never mind, no it does not. It doesn't truncate the sectors to
the beginning of a page boundary.

Will take the patch as-is (will edit the commit message that seems a
bit inaccurate).

             Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-22 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-22  0:53 [PATCH] Fix nasty 32-bit overflow bug in buffer i/o code Anton Altaparmakov
2014-09-22  4:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-09-22  9:30   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2014-09-22 10:36     ` Hugh Dickins
2014-09-22 11:01       ` Anton Altaparmakov
2014-09-22 15:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-22 15:24   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2014-09-22 15:29   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2014-09-22 15:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-09-22 15:46       ` Anton Altaparmakov

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