linux-kernel - Re: [patch] fix some conversion overflows

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Message-ID: <20070720061300.GF31489@sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:13:00 +1000
From:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@...cle.com>, dgc@....com,
	mhalcrow@...ibm.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] fix some conversion overflows

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 07:40:04AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Fix page index to offset conversion overflows in buffer layer, ecryptfs,
> and ocfs2.
> 
> It would be nice to convert the whole tree to page_offset, but for now
> just fix the bugs.

Yup, that's part of the clean-ups in Christoph Lameter's variable 
order page cache patch set. i.e.:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118236497117452&w=2

and friends like:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118236459007960&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118236495712004&w=2

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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