Re: aarch64 5.15.68 regression in topology/thread_siblings (huge file size and no content)

From: Phil Auld
Date: Fri Sep 23 2022 - 09:02:50 EST


On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 11:16:55AM +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 10:05:06PM +0200, Petr Štetiar wrote:
> > Phil Auld <pauld@xxxxxxxxxx> [2022-09-22 13:18:12]:
> >
> > > Then I applied the fix and the problem went away:
> >
> > I've just tried the same aarch64 and I can confirm, that the
> > patch fixes the issue.
>
> Wow, that's odd that the file size matters here.
>

Yeah, I looked through the code some but nothing jumped out where
that unsigned -1 could cause a problem (like count + 1 wrapping
to 0 or something).

> Ok, I'll send this to Linus in a few hours, thanks.

Thanks!


Cheers,
Phil

>
> greg k-h
>

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