Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] block: bugfix for Amiga partition overflow check patch

Geert Uytterhoeven
2023-07-05T07:28:42Z

On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 1:38 AM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> wrote:
> Making 'blk' sector_t (i.e. 64 bit if LBD support is active)
> fails the 'blk>0' test in the partition block loop if a
> value of (signed int) -1 is used to mark the end of the
> partition block list.
>
> This bug was introduced in patch 3 of my prior Amiga partition
> support fixes series, and spotted by Christian Zigotzky when
> testing the latest block updates.
>
> Explicitly cast 'blk' to signed int to allow use of -1 to
> terminate the partition block linked list.
>
> Reported-by: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>
> Fixes: b6f3f28f60 ("block: add overflow checks for Amiga partition support")
> Message-ID: 024ce4fa-cc6d-50a2-9aae-3701d0ebf668@xenosoft.de

Please drop this line.

> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.2
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/024ce4fa-cc6d-50a2-9aae-3701d0ebf668@xenosoft.de
> Signed-off-by: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
> Tested-by: Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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