+ buffer-cast-block-to-loff_t-before-shifting-it.patch added to mm-unstable branch

+ buffer-cast-block-to-loff_t-before-shifting-it.patch added to mm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: buffer: cast block to loff_t before shifting it
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     buffer-cast-block-to-loff_t-before-shifting-it.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/buffer-cast-block-to-loff_t-before-shifting-it.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: buffer: cast block to loff_t before shifting it
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 21:06:05 +0000

While sector_t is always defined as a u64 today, that hasn't always been
the case and it might not always be the same size as loff_t in the future.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231109210608.2252323-5-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Cc: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/buffer.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/buffer.c~buffer-cast-block-to-loff_t-before-shifting-it
+++ a/fs/buffer.c
@@ -2008,7 +2008,7 @@ static int
 iomap_to_bh(struct inode *inode, sector_t block, struct buffer_head *bh,
 		const struct iomap *iomap)
 {
-	loff_t offset = block << inode->i_blkbits;
+	loff_t offset = (loff_t)block << inode->i_blkbits;
 
 	bh->b_bdev = iomap->bdev;
 
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@infradead.org are

mm-add-folio_zero_tail-and-use-it-in-ext4.patch
mm-add-folio_fill_tail-and-use-it-in-iomap.patch
gfs2-convert-stuffed_readpage-to-stuffed_read_folio.patch
mm-remove-test_set_page_writeback.patch
afs-do-not-test-the-return-value-of-folio_start_writeback.patch
smb-do-not-test-the-return-value-of-folio_start_writeback.patch
mm-return-void-from-folio_start_writeback-and-related-functions.patch
mm-make-mapping_evict_folio-the-preferred-way-to-evict-clean-folios.patch
mm-convert-__do_fault-to-use-a-folio.patch
mm-use-mapping_evict_folio-in-truncate_error_page.patch
mm-convert-soft_offline_in_use_page-to-use-a-folio.patch
mm-convert-isolate_page-to-mf_isolate_folio.patch
mm-remove-invalidate_inode_page.patch
buffer-return-bool-from-grow_dev_folio.patch
buffer-calculate-block-number-inside-folio_init_buffers.patch
buffer-fix-grow_buffers-for-block-size-page_size.patch
buffer-cast-block-to-loff_t-before-shifting-it.patch
buffer-fix-various-functions-for-block-size-page_size.patch
buffer-handle-large-folios-in-__block_write_begin_int.patch
buffer-fix-more-functions-for-block-size-page_size.patch