From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: reject invalid queue attribute values
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 11:54:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <504C6761.6010904@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347119745-7044-1-git-send-email-dreisner@archlinux.org>
On 2012-09-08 17:55, Dave Reisner wrote:
> Instead of using simple_strtoul which "converts" invalid numbers to 0,
> use strict_strtoul and perform error checking to ensure that userspace
> passes us a valid unsigned long. This addresses problems with functions
> such as writev, which might want to write a trailing newline -- the
> newline should rightfully be rejected, but the value preceeding it
> should be preserved.
Thanks, applied to for-3.7/core.
--
Jens Axboe
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2012-09-08 15:55 [PATCH] block: reject invalid queue attribute values Dave Reisner
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2012-09-04 12:27 Dave Reisner
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