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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:33:25 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] oid_registry: allow arbitrary size OIDs
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:19:56 -0500 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:

> The current OID registry parser uses 64 bit arithmetic which limits us
> to supporting 64 bit or smaller OIDs.  This isn't usually a problem
> except that it prevents us from representing the 2.25. prefix OIDs
> which are the OID representation of UUIDs and have a 128 bit number
> following the prefix.  Rather than import not often used perl
> arithmetic modules, replace the current perl 64 bit arithmetic with a
> callout to bc, which is arbitrary precision.
> 

How big a problem is this in shipped kernels?  Should we backport it?