Re: [PATCH 3.12 89/91] PM / devfreq: Fix incorrect type issue.

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Fri Nov 11 2016 - 23:12:49 EST


On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 03:02:23AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 18:47 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > From: Xiaolong Ye <yexl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > 3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let
> > me know.
> >
> > ===============
> >
> > commit 5f25f066f75a67835abb5e400471a27abd09395b upstream.
> >
> > time_in_state in struct devfreq is defined as unsigned long, so
> > devm_kzalloc should use sizeof(unsigned long) as argument instead
> > of sizeof(unsigned int), otherwise it will cause unexpected result
> > in 64bit system.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Xiaolong Ye <yexl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Kevin Liu <kliu5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Oliver Neukum <ONeukum@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> [...]
>
> This is still needed in longterm branches 3.10 - 4.1 inclusive. I just
> queued it up for 3.16.

now queued up for 3.10, thanks Ben for letting me know.

Willy