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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix nasty 32-bit overflow bug in buffer i/o code.
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 08:24:47 -0700
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> Ugh. Does the simpler patch to just pass in "block" work as well?

Ugh, never mind, no it does not. It doesn't truncate the sectors to
the beginning of a page boundary.

Will take the patch as-is (will edit the commit message that seems a
bit inaccurate).

             Linus