On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 05:34:24PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 05:04:48PM -0700, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > jiffies: Avoid undefined behavior from signed overflow > > > > to the 3.10-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: > > jiffies-avoid-undefined-behavior-from-signed-overflow.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > Does this actually, in practice, result in miscompilation of this > calculation in the kernel with some compiler or configuration? If so, > this makes sense, but if not, what motivates putting this in stable? I was asked to backport it because some people have seen this happen in the past. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html