From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kprobes: Remove an unneeded condition
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 09:22:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170323092201.GL32449@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170321204348.GD22118@mwanda>
On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 09:15:16AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 12:34:26 +0300
> Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 07:55:38AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > > On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 23:43:48 +0300
> > > Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > We know that "addr" is non-NULL here so there is no need to check if
> > > > "addr + offset" is NULL.
> > >
> > > What about "UINT_MAX - addr + 1 = offset" case on 32bit arch ? :)
> > >
> >
> > I think if that's really possible then we are so screwed that a NULL
> > check won't help?
>
> Fair enough. Even if the addr is not NULL, that could be out of text area.
> Could you add that to patch description, and also clean up the whole
> function? It seems "invalid" label is no more needed.
Sure. I'll resend.
regards,
dan carpenter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-23 9:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-21 20:43 [PATCH] kprobes: Remove an unneeded condition Dan Carpenter
2017-03-21 22:55 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2017-03-22 9:34 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-03-23 0:15 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2017-03-24 9:50 ` [PATCH v2] kprobes: cleanup _kprobe_addr() Dan Carpenter
2017-03-24 9:50 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-03-27 2:19 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2017-03-27 2:19 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2017-03-23 9:22 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
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