Re: Patch "zram: fix operator precedence to get offset" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

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Hi Greg,

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 02:49:13PM +0200, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     zram: fix operator precedence to get offset
> 
> to the 4.10-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:
>      zram-fix-operator-precedence-to-get-offset.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> 
> 
> From 4ca82dabc9fbf7bc5322aa54d802cb3cb7b125c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 14:56:35 -0700
> Subject: zram: fix operator precedence to get offset
> 
> From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> commit 4ca82dabc9fbf7bc5322aa54d802cb3cb7b125c5 upstream.
> 
> In zram_rw_page, the logic to get offset is wrong by operator precedence
> (i.e., "<<" is higher than "&").  With wrong offset, zram can corrupt
> the user's data.  This patch fixes it.
> 
> Fixes: 8c7f01025 ("zram: implement rw_page operation of zram")
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1492042622-12074-1-git-send-email-minchan@xxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

After Linus merging this patch, I got realized that patch itself is correct
but no need to apply this patch to the stable by review from Sergey.
Sorry about the noise.

Please drop this patch.



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