On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 03:14:21PM -0600, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> From: Li Wang <[email protected]>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 684a3ff7e69acc7c678d1a1394fe9e757993fd34 ]
> 
> ecryptfs_write() can enter an infinite loop when truncating a file to a
> size larger than 4G. This only happens on architectures where size_t is
> represented by 32 bits.
> 
> This was caused by a size_t overflow due to it incorrectly being used to
> store the result of a calculation which uses potentially large values of
> type loff_t.
> 
> [[email protected]: rewrite subject and commit message]
> Signed-off-by: Li Wang <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Yunchuan Wen <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <[email protected]>
> ---
> 
> Hello - This is the "backport" to 3.2.4, which also applies to 3.0.19 with no
> problem. It required no backporting (just a cherry-pick), so I'm not sure why 
> I
> received a "FAILED" message from Greg. Let me know if I'm doing something
> wrong. :)

It failed because the original patch did not apply cleanly, but you
fixed that up in this resend, thanks.

greg k-h
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