linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nfsd: Fix overflow causing non-working mounts on 1 TB machines

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Date:   Wed, 3 Jul 2019 12:43:23 -0400
From:   "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...hat.com>
To:     Paul Menzel <pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de>
Cc:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
        Chris Tracy <ctracy@...r.scu.edu>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, it+linux-nfs@...gen.mpg.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfsd: Fix overflow causing non-working mounts on 1 TB
 machines

On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 06:03:06PM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Bruce,
> 
> 
> On 7/3/19 5:56 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > Good catch!  And thanks for the detailed explanation.  Applying for 5.2
> > and stable.
> 
> Thanks. Please note, that in the last part are some guesses, and I am not
> well versed in the terminology. So please feel free to reword the commit
> messages.

I haven't checked all the arithmetic, but it sounds pretty plausible to
me, and clearly that type was wrong.

--b.