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Date:   Sun, 9 Jul 2023 21:05:49 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
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        Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
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        Dylan Yudaken <dylany@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eventfd: avoid overflow to ULLONG_MAX when ctx->count is
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On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 09:13:28PM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> > For eventfd with flag EFD_SEMAPHORE, when its ctx->count is 0, calling
> > eventfd_ctx_do_read will cause ctx->count to overflow to ULLONG_MAX.
> 
> Please choose an imperative change suggestion.

Markus, stop this nitpicking.  It puts off contributors.  The changelog
is perfectly clear.