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From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
	<netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] xfrm: eradicate size_t
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 13:46:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170925114625.GP3149@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170921204853.GF13550@avx2>

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 11:48:54PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> All netlink message sizes are a) unsigned, b) can't be >= 4GB in size
> because netlink doesn't support >= 64KB messages in the first place.
> 
> All those size_t across the code are a scam especially across networking
> which likes to work with small numbers like 1500 or 65536.
> 
> Propagate unsignedness and flip some "int" to "unsigned int" as well.
> 
> This is preparation to switching nlmsg_new() to "unsigned int".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

All applied to ipsec-next, thanks Alexey!

      reply	other threads:[~2017-09-25 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-21 20:45 [PATCH 1/5] xfrm: make aead_len() return unsigned int Alexey Dobriyan
2017-09-21 20:46 ` [PATCH 2/5] xfrm: make xfrm_alg_len() " Alexey Dobriyan
2017-09-21 20:47 ` [PATCH 3/5] xfrm: make xfrm_alg_auth_len() " Alexey Dobriyan
2017-09-21 20:47 ` [PATCH 4/5] xfrm: make xfrm_replay_state_esn_len() " Alexey Dobriyan
2017-09-21 20:48 ` [PATCH 5/5] xfrm: eradicate size_t Alexey Dobriyan
2017-09-25 11:46   ` Steffen Klassert [this message]

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