linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 66/72] mtdchar: fix offset overflow detection

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Date:	Mon, 22 Apr 2013 04:56:38 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 66/72] mtdchar: fix offset overflow detection

On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 10:16 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> 3.5.7.11 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> 
> commit 9c603e53d380459fb62fec7cd085acb0b74ac18f upstream.
[...]

There are further problems with mtdchar_mmap(), and David recommended to
apply commit f5cf8f07423b 'mtd: Disable mtdchar mmap on MMU systems'
instead.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production:
                                    A fail-safe circuit will destroy others.

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