[ 10/11] mtdchar: fix offset overflow detection

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 09:55:20PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-04-14 at 19:17 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> Please use f5cf8f07423b2677cebebcebc863af77223a4972 instead (for 3.4
> too).

Really?  I love the comment in that commit, "disable it for now until it
can be fixed properly in the next merge window."  Yet that was back in
October of last year, no one has actually fixed this issue, is that
because it can't be properly fixed, or just because no one got around to
it?

thanks,

greg k-h