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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Jeffrey Hugo <quic_jhugo@quicinc.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>,
	Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, mhi@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/26] bus: mhi: host: use array_size
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:45:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202306231639.68955384A@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58cb3bf6-5ffd-194b-1455-4e5bb045fc34@quicinc.com>

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 04:09:46PM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
> Kees, would you please chime in and educate me here?  I feel like I'm
> missing something important here.

The array_size() family will saturate at SIZE_MAX (rather than potentially
wrapping around). No allocator can fulfil a 18446744073709551615 byte
(18 exabyte) allocation. :) So the NULL return value will (hopefully)
trigger an error path.

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-23 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-23 21:14 [PATCH 00/26] use array_size Julia Lawall
2023-06-23 21:14 ` [PATCH 10/26] bus: mhi: host: " Julia Lawall
2023-06-23 21:30   ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-06-23 21:45     ` Julia Lawall
2023-06-23 22:09       ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-06-23 23:45         ` Kees Cook [this message]
2023-06-24 16:06           ` Jeffrey Hugo
2023-06-26 11:46     ` Dan Carpenter
2023-06-26 14:53   ` Jeffrey Hugo

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