Re: [PATCH 4.19 091/175] loop: Remove sector_t truncation checks

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On Mon, 2024-04-29 at 13:10 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 06:56:40PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Thu, 2024-04-11 at 11:55 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 4.19-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > > 
> > > ------------------
> > > 
> > > From: Martijn Coenen <maco@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > [ Upstream commit 083a6a50783ef54256eec3499e6575237e0e3d53 ]
> > > 
> > > sector_t is now always u64, so we don't need to check for truncation.
> > 
> > This needs to be reverted for 4.19, because sector_t wasn't always u64
> > until 5.2.
> 
> Ah, ick.  Ok, let me go revert all of these,

I don't think it's necessary to go that far.  I'll send a patch to
revert just this.

> that should also solve the build issue for Alpha that Guenter was reporting.

That's a separate issue, I think.

> thanks for letting me know.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The Peter principle: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to
their level of incompetence.

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