The patch titled md: fix an unsigned compare to allow creation of bitmaps with v1.0 metadata has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was md-fix-an-unsigned-compare-to-allow-creation-of-bitmaps-with-v10-metadata.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: md: fix an unsigned compare to allow creation of bitmaps with v1.0 metadata From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> As page->index is unsigned, this all becomes an unsigned comparison, which almost always returns an error. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bitmap.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/md/bitmap.c~md-fix-an-unsigned-compare-to-allow-creation-of-bitmaps-with-v10-metadata drivers/md/bitmap.c --- a/drivers/md/bitmap.c~md-fix-an-unsigned-compare-to-allow-creation-of-bitmaps-with-v10-metadata +++ a/drivers/md/bitmap.c @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static int write_sb_page(struct bitmap * if (bitmap->offset < 0) { /* DATA BITMAP METADATA */ if (bitmap->offset - + page->index * (PAGE_SIZE/512) + + (long)(page->index * (PAGE_SIZE/512)) + size/512 > 0) /* bitmap runs in to metadata */ return -EINVAL; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from neilb@xxxxxxx are git-md-accel.patch embed-a-struct-path-into-struct-nameidata-instead-of-nd-dentrymnt.patch embed-a-struct-path-into-struct-nameidata-instead-of-nd-dentrymnt-checkpatch-fixes.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html