linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] integer overflow issue in 'appletouch' driver

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Message-Id: <201008090933.32446.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:33:32 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Vadim Zaliva <lord@...codile.org>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Serge Belyshev <belyshev@...ni.sinp.msu.ru>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] integer overflow issue in 'appletouch' driver

On Sunday, August 08, 2010 08:43:09 pm Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-08-08 at 18:24 -0700, Vadim Zaliva wrote:
> > I have tested the patch on device I had
> > I will have an access to it to retest later thus week. We can wait for my
> > test to try to identify how my PowerBook is different from yours. Or you
> > can roll the patch back.
> 
> I'd rather roll the patch back for now. I'll send the revert as part of
> the next powerpc update. We'll sort things out then.

I'll be sending pull request to Linus this evening and should take care of
this as well. I guess we need to pull it out of stable as well since Vadim's
thouchpad was usable even with older code but some touchpads are completely
broken now.

We can re-instate the fix later when we make sure it works fr everyone.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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