Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: fix possible arithmetic overflow for multi-transfer message

[Ian Abbott]

On 23/05/16 12:15, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 09:50:35AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > `spidev_message()` sums the lengths of the individual SPI transfers to
> > > determine the overall SPI message length.  It restricts the total
> > > length, returning an error if too long, but it does not check for
>
> As documented in SubmittingPatches please send patches to the
> maintainers for the code you would like to change.  The normal kernel
> workflow is that people apply patches from their inboxes, if they aren't
> copied they are likely to not see the patch at all and it is much more
> difficult to apply patches.

In this case, Dmitry was replying to my patch that has already been 
applied over a year ago. :)

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