From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2021 8:58 AM To: Marciniszyn, Mike mike.marciniszyn@cornelisnetworks.com; Dalessandro, Dennis dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com; ivansprundel@ioactive.com; jgg@nvidia.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] IB/qib: Protect from buffer overflow in struct" failed to apply to 4.19-stable tree
The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
Greg,
The only thing required for 4.19 for this patch is that:
829ca44ecf60 ("IB/qib: Use struct_size() helper")
Is there first as a prereq.
How do you want to see that in the signature block meta language?
Mike