Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix int overflow in callers of do_shrink_slab()

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 02:15:09PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> What did he report?  Was it code inspection?  Did the kernel explode? 
> etcetera.  I'm thinking that the fix should be backported but to
> determine that, we need to understand the end-user runtime effects, as
> always.  Please.

I've been investigating unrelated but and occasionally found this nit.
Look, there should be over 4G of objects scanned to have it triggered,
so I don't expect it happen in real life but better be on a safe side
and fix it.