Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] block: add overflow checks for Amiga partition support

Martin Steigerwald
2023-06-13T07:46:11Z

Hi Michael, hi Jens, Hi Geert.

Michael Schmitz - 22.08.22, 22:56:10 CEST:
> On 23/08/22 08:41, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On 8/22/22 2:39 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> >> Hi Jens,
> >>
> >> will do - just waiting to hear back what needs to be done regarding
> >> backporting issues raised by Geert.
> >
> > It needs to go upstream first before it can go to stable. Just mark
> > it with the right Fixes tags and that will happen automatically.
[…]
> thanks - the Fixes tag in my patches refers to Martin's bug report and
> won't be useful to decide how far back this must be applied.
>
> Now the bug pre-dates git, making the commit to 'fix'
> 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 ... That one's a bit special,
> please yell if you want me to lie about this and use a later commit
> specific to the partition parser code.

After this discussion happened I thought the patch went in. However… as
John Paul Adrian asked in "Status of affs support in the kernel and
affstools" thread on linux-m68k and debian-68k mailing list, I searched
for the patch in git history but did not find it.

So did it go in meanwhile?

Ciao,
--
Martin