Re: [PATCH v4] mm/hugetlb: Fix unsigned overflow in __nr_hugepages_store_common()

[Alex Ghiti]

On 3/5/19 4:35 PM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 3/5/19 1:16 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 20:15:40 -0800 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Andrew, this is on top of Alexandre Ghiti's "hugetlb: allow to free gigantic
> > > pages regardless of the configuration" patch.  Both patches modify
> > > __nr_hugepages_store_common().  Alex's patch is going to change slightly
> > > in this area.
> > OK, thanks, I missed that.  Are the changes significant?
> No, changes should be minor.  IIRC, just checking for a condition in an
> error path.
I will send the v5 of this patch tomorrow, I was waiting for architecture
maintainer remarks. I still miss sh, but I'm confident on this change.

Alex