Re: [PATCH] sysfs/bin: Fix size handling overflow for bin_attribute

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 06:03:55PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> While looking at the code, I noticed that bin_attribute read() and write()
> ops copy the inode size into an int for futher comparisons.
> 
> Some bin_attributes can be fairly large. For example, pci creates some for
> BARs set to the BAR size and giant BARs are around the corner, so this is
> going to break something somewhere eventually.
> 
> Let's use the right type.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This file (fs/sysfs/bin.c) is no longer in linux-next as Tejun merged it
with the other file handling code in sysfs, to remove a bunch of
duplicated logic.

So, could you look at linux-next and see if this is still an issue there
or not?

thanks,

greg k-h
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