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

Martin Steigerwald
2023-06-13T10:57:27Z

Michael Schmitz - 13.06.23, 10:18:24 CEST:
> Am 13.06.2023 um 19:25 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> > 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.
>
> I may have messed that one up, as it turns out. Last version was v9
> which I had to resend twice, and depending on what Jens uses to keep
> track of patches, the resends may not have shown up in his tool. I
> should have bumped the version number instead.
>
> I'll see if my latest version still applies cleanly ...

Many thanks!

Would be nice to see it finally go in.

Best,
--
Martin