From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
To: dccp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8]: Add protection against invalid parameters
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 15:30:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061203153019.GK10303@mandriva.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612011827.01580@strip-the-willow>
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 03:26:20PM +0000, Gerrit Renker wrote:
> Quoting Ian McDonald:
> | The
> | reason I say this is good as in the back of my mind I am thinking of
> | people looking for DoS vulnerabilities...
> |
> | However BUG_ON does work and forces the code to get tidied so the
> | condition doesn't occur again. So whichever way I'm happy to go ahead
> | with it.
> What you are saying is very important and I suggest auditing the code against
> calling this function with invalid parameters as next to-do.
>
> I would further like to inform you and Arnaldo that I have ironed out an error
> of mine in this patch (uploaded), namely the following
Heh, I was _just_ hitting enter to commit exactly this patch, so lemme
get the_whole_lot again to get this one, thanks a lot!
- Arnaldo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-03 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-01 18:27 [PATCH 5/8]: Add protection against invalid parameters Gerrit Renker
2006-12-01 22:50 ` Ian McDonald
2006-12-02 12:38 ` Gerrit Renker
2006-12-02 18:37 ` Ian McDonald
2006-12-03 15:26 ` Gerrit Renker
2006-12-03 15:30 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
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