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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:16:00 +0900 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> To: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org>, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [ 011/120] lib/gcd.c: prevent possible div by 0 On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:11:24PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 09:59 +0900, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@....org> > > > > commit e96875677fb2b7cb739c5d7769824dff7260d31d upstream. > > > > Account for all properties when a and/or b are 0: > > gcd(0, 0) = 0 > > gcd(a, 0) = a > > gcd(0, b) = b > > > > Fixes no known problems in current kernels. > [...] > > I can't believe this change is harmful, but unless there are some known > problems this doesn't meet the criteria for a stable update. It was discussed in the original thread of this patch that it would be a good idea to have this in the stable releases, and I agree. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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