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From: subashab@codeaurora.org
To: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:30:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <363ac4f6f7e1a8b905af567667a1559a@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <575A5DF0.7020300@gmx.de>

> The suggested change would extend the usable range of positive numbers
> by one bit only. As many systems are 64 bit this does not seem forward
> looking.
> 
> I would prefer to have a routine that can handle 64 bit integers with
> limits (let's call it proc_doint64vec_minmax) which uses fields extra1
> and extra2 of ctl_table as min and max.
> 
> Then set xfrm_table[].extra1 = 0 and xfrm_table[].extra2 = UINT_MAX if
> you need a result in the u32 range.
> 

Thanks Heinrich. Do you think we can use proc_doulongvec_minmax for 
this?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-13  2:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-10  2:40 [RFC] Handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan
2016-06-10  6:28 ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2016-06-13  2:30   ` subashab [this message]
2016-06-14 20:36     ` subashab
2016-06-10  6:37 ` Heinrich Schuchardt

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