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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.4,5.10 2/2] udf: Fix use of check_add_overflow() with mixed type arguments
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 16:42:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025031307-corrosive-overlaid-22ea@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a8557b9237ab9fc31f8d10e9a7912560af68dbb.camel@debian.org>

On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 06:00:58PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-03-10 at 17:29 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 11:28:22PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2025-02-24 at 17:00 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > Commit ebbe26fd54a9 "udf: Avoid excessive partition lengths"
> > > > introduced a use of check_add_overflow() with argument types u32,
> > > > size_t, and u32 *.
> > > > 
> > > > This was backported to the 5.x stable branches, where in 64-bit
> > > > configurations it results in a build error (with older compilers) or a
> > > > warning.  Before commit d219d2a9a92e "overflow: Allow mixed type
> > > > arguments", which went into Linux 6.1, mixed type arguments are not
> > > > supported.  That cannot be backported to 5.4 or 5.10 as it would raise
> > > > the minimum compiler version for these kernel versions.
> > > [....]
> > > 
> > > And for 5.15, I think it should be safe to backport commit
> > > d219d2a9a92e.  Otherwise this patch should be applied to fix the
> > > warning there.
> > 
> > I'll take either, whch do you want us to do?
> 
> Please apply commit d219d2a9a92e to 5.15.

It showed up in the 5.15.149 release.  Is there a portion of it missing
there?

confused,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2025-03-13 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-24 15:57 [PATCH 5.4,4.10 1/2] perf cs-etm: Add missing variable in cs_etm__process_queues() Ben Hutchings
2025-02-24 16:00 ` [PATCH 5.4,5.10 2/2] udf: Fix use of check_add_overflow() with mixed type arguments Ben Hutchings
2025-02-24 22:28   ` Ben Hutchings
2025-03-10 16:29     ` Greg KH
2025-03-11 17:00       ` Ben Hutchings
2025-03-13 15:42         ` Greg KH [this message]
2025-02-25 16:13   ` Sasha Levin
2025-02-25 16:13 ` [PATCH 5.4,4.10 1/2] perf cs-etm: Add missing variable in cs_etm__process_queues() Sasha Levin

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