Re: [PATCH] block: fix splitting segments on boundary masks

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 08:26:01AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 7/9/20 7:35 AM, Tony Battersby wrote:
> > Although I was not originally involved in the development of these
> > patches, I recently came across them while looking over the source:
> > 
> > upstream commit 429120f3df2d ("block: fix splitting segments on boundary masks")
> >     Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.1+
> >     Fixes: dcebd755926b ("block: use bio_for_each_bvec() to compute multi-page bvec count")
> > 
> > upstream commit 4a2f704eb2d8 ("block: fix get_max_segment_size() overflow on 32bit arch")
> >     Fixes: 429120f3df2d ("block: fix splitting segments on boundary masks")
> > 
> > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-block/msg48605.html
> > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-block/msg48959.html
> > 
> > 
> > The first patch mentions fixing problems with filesystem corruption, so
> > it seems important, but it has never been included in any -stable
> > kernel.  Is there a specific reason these patches have been excluded
> > from -stable, or is it just a mistake?
> > 
> See here:
> 
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg355009.html
> 
> Looks like it was queued but dropped because of the problem that
> was later fixed with the patch below. Maybe it is time to revisit
> and apply both patches now.

Ok, let me queue both up for 5.4.y now and see what happens :)

thanks,

greg k-h