Re: [patch 4/8] mm: write_cache_pages type overflow fix

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On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 04:23:36AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:50:43AM +1100, npiggin@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > In the range_cont case, range_start is set to index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, but
> > index is a pgoff_t and range_start is loff_t, so we can get truncation of the
> > value on 32-bit platforms. Fix this by adding the standard loff_t cast.
> > 
> > This is a data interity bug (depending on how range_cont is used).
> 
> Aneesh has a patch to kill the range_cont flag, which is queued up for
> 2.6.28.

Which tree is this queued up in?  It's not in ext4 or the mm tree...

      	      	   	     	       - Ted
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