+ mm-fadvise-fix-signed-overflow-ubsan-complaint-fix.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm-fadvise-fix-signed-overflow-ubsan-complaint-fix
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-fadvise-fix-signed-overflow-ubsan-complaint-fix.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-fadvise-fix-signed-overflow-ubsan-complaint-fix.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-fadvise-fix-signed-overflow-ubsan-complaint-fix.patch

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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm-fadvise-fix-signed-overflow-ubsan-complaint-fix

add comment explaining the casts

Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <icytxw@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---


diff -puN mm/fadvise.c~mm-fadvise-fix-signed-overflow-ubsan-complaint-fix mm/fadvise.c
--- a/mm/fadvise.c~mm-fadvise-fix-signed-overflow-ubsan-complaint-fix
+++ a/mm/fadvise.c
@@ -72,7 +72,11 @@ int ksys_fadvise64_64(int fd, loff_t off
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	/* Careful about overflows. Len == 0 means "as much as possible" */
+	/*
+	 * Careful about overflows. Len == 0 means "as much as possible".  Use
+	 * unsigned math because signed overflows are undefined and UBSan
+	 * complains.
+	 */
 	endbyte = (u64)offset + (u64)len;
 	if (!len || endbyte < len)
 		endbyte = -1;
_

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mm-drop-vm_bug_on-from-__get_free_pages-fix.patch
mm-list_lruc-fold-__list_lru_count_one-into-its-caller.patch
mm-fadvise-fix-signed-overflow-ubsan-complaint-fix.patch
mm-sparsemem-defer-the-ms-section_mem_map-clearing-fix.patch
list_lru-prefetch-neighboring-list-entries-before-acquiring-lock-fix.patch
mm-oom-cgroup-aware-oom-killer-fix.patch
mm-oom-cgroup-aware-oom-killer-fix-2.patch
mm-oom-docs-describe-the-cgroup-aware-oom-killer-fix-2-fix.patch
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