This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hfsplus: fix overflow in sector calculations in hfsplus_submit_bio
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
hfsplus-fix-overflow-in-sector-calculations-in-hfsplus_submit_bio.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From a6dc8c04218eb752ff79cdc24a995cf51866caed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Janne Kalliomäki <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:05:24 -0400
Subject: hfsplus: fix overflow in sector calculations in hfsplus_submit_bio
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From: Janne Kalliomäki <[email protected]>
commit a6dc8c04218eb752ff79cdc24a995cf51866caed upstream.
The variable io_size was unsigned int, which caused the wrong sector number
to be calculated after aligning it. This then caused mount to fail with big
volumes, as backup volume header information was searched from a
wrong sector.
Signed-off-by: Janne Kalliomäki <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ int hfsplus_submit_bio(struct super_bloc
DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(wait);
struct bio *bio;
int ret = 0;
- unsigned int io_size;
+ u64 io_size;
loff_t start;
int offset;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.4/hfsplus-fix-overflow-in-sector-calculations-in-hfsplus_submit_bio.patch
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