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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 07:58:18 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
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Subject: Re: backport a patch for Linux 3.18
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On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:34:16AM +0800, Miles Chen wrote:
> Hi reviewers,
> 
> I suggest to backport a commit to Linux 3.18 stable tree.
> Reason: KASAN reports a out-of-bound write issue when a large size
> allocation is made from drivers through user-space.
> 
> 
> commit: 67a2e213e7e937c41c52ab5bc46bf3f4de469f6e
> subject: mm: cma: fix incorrect type conversion for size during dma
> allocation
> kernel version to apply to: Linux 3.18

Now applied, along with a number of other cma fixes that 3.18 really
should have as well (that were dependancies of this patch in order to
apply "cleanly".)

thanks,

greg k-h