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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [stable] mtdchar: fix offset overflow detection
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 01:27:10AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Brad Spengler pointed out this fix from 3.6 was missing from the earlier
> stable branches:
> 
> commit 9c603e53d380459fb62fec7cd085acb0b74ac18f
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Date:   Sat Sep 8 12:57:30 2012 -0700
> 
>     mtdchar: fix offset overflow detection
> 
> It looks cleanly cherry-pickable, although I haven't yet tested this.

Yes, it looks like it should be applied, and that it applies cleanly.
Thanks for letting us know.

greg k-h