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From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pipe: make pipe user buffer limit checks more precise
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 21:51:45 +0200
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On 08/17/2016 09:41 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>> So, would that mean something like the following (where I've moved
>>> some checks from pipe_fcntl() to pipe_set_size()):
>> [...]
>
> And, do you agree that something similar is required for alloc_pipe_info()
> when creating a pipe?

Yeah, that sounds correct to me.


Vegard