Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0-maybe] device_tree: Fix integer overflowing in load_device_tree()

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> writes:

> On 4/10/19 8:34 AM, Alistair Francis wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 10:59 PM Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> writes:
>>>> On 4/10/19 7:28 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>>>>> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> writes:
[...]
>>>>>> BTW how did you figure that out?
>>>>>
>>>>> Downstream handling of upstream commit da885fe1ee8 led me to the
>>>>> function.  I spotted dt_size = get_image_size(filename_path).
>>>>> Experience has taught me to check the left hand side's type.  Bad.  Then
>>>>> I saw how dt_size gets increased.  Worse.
>>>>
>>>> So you genuinely neglected to mention Kurtis Miller then :)
>>>
>>> Explanation, not excuse: the only occurence of the name in my downstream
>>> reading was a two-liner BZ comment, which I totally missed in my haste
>>> to give the fix a chance to make 4.0.  I certainly didn't mean to
>>> deprive him of credit!
>
> My English teacher explained me neglected sounds like a
> reprimand/reproach (as in negligence), sorry I didn't mean to be rude
> here, I wanted to say something like "Peter remarked you did gave
> credits to the first one who reported this issue, but since you figured
> this bug via your own way, the omission was not intentional then."

Don't worry, my social interactions teacher taught me to assume good
intent ;)

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