linux-kernel - Re: [lkp] [string_helpers] 726ecfc321: test_string_helpers: Test 'test_string_get_size

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Date:	Fri, 06 May 2016 10:30:14 +0200
From:	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	James Bottomley <JBottomley@...n.com>,
	kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, lkp@...org
Subject: Re: [lkp] [string_helpers] 726ecfc321: test_string_helpers: Test 'test_string_get_size_one' failed!

kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@...el.com> writes:

> FYI, we noticed the following commit:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.4.y
> commit 726ecfc321994ec6ab044c1e3e5886408de991ac ("string_helpers: fix precision loss for some inputs")
>

The following commit:

commit 72676bb53f33fd0ef3a1484fc1ecfd306dc6ff40
Author: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Date:   Tue Feb 2 16:57:18 2016 -0800

    lib/test-string_helpers.c: fix and improve string_get_size() tests
    

should probably be backported to 4.4 as well.

-- 
  Vitaly