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Date:   Wed, 3 Nov 2021 18:59:25 +0100
From:   "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     "Marciniszyn, Mike" <mike.marciniszyn@cornelisnetworks.com>
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Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] IB/qib: Protect from buffer overflow in
 struct" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 03:25:39PM +0000, Marciniszyn, Mike wrote:
> > From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2021 8:58 AM
> > To: Marciniszyn, Mike <mike.marciniszyn@cornelisnetworks.com>;
> > Dalessandro, Dennis <dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com>;
> > ivansprundel@ioactive.com; jgg@nvidia.com
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] IB/qib: Protect from buffer overflow in
> > struct" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree
> > 
> > 
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree,
> > then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to
> > <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> 
> This patch requires a backport of upstream commit:
> 
> 829ca44ecf60 ("IB/qib: Use struct_size() helper")
> 
> That commit needs to me modified to include linux/overflow.h.
> 
> The overflow patch then picks clean after that modified patch is present.
> 
> How do you want to see that expressed in patches?

Can you please send a patch series for this that I can apply?

thanks,

greg k-h