* [merged mm-nonmm-stable] lib-string-fix-memchr_inv-for-large-ranges.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-08-04 4:04 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-08-04 4:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, penberg, kees, joern, cl, andy, akinobu.mita, include,
akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: lib/string: fix memchr_inv() for large ranges
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
lib-string-fix-memchr_inv-for-large-ranges.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net>
Subject: lib/string: fix memchr_inv() for large ranges
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:11:33 +0000
memchr_inv() takes a size_t length but counts 8 byte words in an unsigned
int. At 32GiB that count wraps, so the scan can quietly miss most of the
range.
Use size_t for the word count.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260621121133.16460-1-include@grrlz.net
Fixes: 798248206b59 ("lib/string.c: introduce memchr_inv()")
Signed-off-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net>
Cc: Akinbou Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameer <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
lib/string.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/lib/string.c~lib-string-fix-memchr_inv-for-large-ranges
+++ a/lib/string.c
@@ -821,7 +821,8 @@ void *memchr_inv(const void *start, int
{
u8 value = c;
u64 value64;
- unsigned int words, prefix;
+ size_t words;
+ unsigned int prefix;
if (bytes <= 16)
return check_bytes8(start, value, bytes);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from include@grrlz.net are
taskstats-drop-the-dead-null-attribute-check-in-parse.patch
taskstats-fold-the-two-cpumask-handlers-into-one.patch
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