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Message-ID: <2023062753-speech-straw-f2f6@gregkh>
Date:   Tue, 27 Jun 2023 08:18:32 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@...nel.org>, Min Li <min15.li@...sung.com>,
        axboe@...nel.dk, willy@...radead.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] block: add check that partition length needs to be
 aligned with block size

On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 06:59:24AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 01:39:26PM +0900, Damien Le Moal wrote:
> > See Greg's comment: this likely need a "Fixes:" tag. And I think that the tag
> > is: fa9156ae597c ("block: refactor blkpg_ioctl"). But please double check.
> 
> No, the lack of checks goes back all the way to when this code was
> added long before git was a thing.  So I don't think a Fixes tag makes
> all that much sense here.

Ok, then how about a normal "cc: stable@...nel.org" added to the s-o-b
area so it gets picked up for all stable trees as this is an issue that
has always been there?

thanks,

greg k-h

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