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From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-spi <linux-spi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"3.8+" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: fix possible arithmetic overflow for multi-transfer message
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 12:23:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5742E839.3040804@mev.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160523111521.GQ8206@sirena.org.uk>

On 23/05/16 12:15, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 09:50:35AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> wrote:
>>> `spidev_message()` sums the lengths of the individual SPI transfers to
>>> determine the overall SPI message length.  It restricts the total
>>> length, returning an error if too long, but it does not check for
>
> As documented in SubmittingPatches please send patches to the
> maintainers for the code you would like to change.  The normal kernel
> workflow is that people apply patches from their inboxes, if they aren't
> copied they are likely to not see the patch at all and it is much more
> difficult to apply patches.
>

In this case, Dmitry was replying to my patch that has already been 
applied over a year ago. :)

-- 
-=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd.    E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=-
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      reply	other threads:[~2016-05-23 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-23 17:50 [PATCH] spi: spidev: fix possible arithmetic overflow for multi-transfer message Ian Abbott
2015-03-23 18:50 ` Mark Brown
2015-03-23 19:29   ` Ian Abbott
2015-03-23 21:01     ` Mark Brown
2016-05-21 16:50 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-05-23 10:20   ` Ian Abbott
2016-05-23 17:04     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-05-23 11:15   ` Mark Brown
2016-05-23 11:23     ` Ian Abbott [this message]

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