From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 19:57:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] igbvf: integer overflow in igbvf_change_mtu() Message-Id: <20151022195710.GY7289@mwanda> List-Id: References: <20151022091013.GC9202@mwanda> In-Reply-To: <20151022091013.GC9202@mwanda> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Yeah, there is an integer overflow before we check but so far as I can see it is harmless. The kernel is full of harmless integer overflows. I sort of feel like this is the simplest way to write it and the other ways feel over engineered and unweildy. Care to propose a patch, though? regards, dan carpenter