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From: "Ray Lee" <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	security@kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	mpm@selenic.com, linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Signed divides vs shifts (Re: [Security] /dev/urandom uses uninit bytes, leaks user data)
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:05:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c0942db0712171005w65bbb512p71a4f9b1fc65c6a7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071217185557.0b501e23.dada1@cosmosbay.com>

On Dec 17, 2007 9:55 AM, Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:
> -               mid = (last - first) / 2 + first;
> +       while (low <= high) {
> +               mid = (low + high) / 2;

I think you just introduced a bug. Think about what happens if
low=high=MAX_LONG/2 + 1.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E1J3RD5-0006yU-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
2007-12-17 17:28 ` Signed divides vs shifts (Re: [Security] /dev/urandom uses uninit bytes, leaks user data) Linus Torvalds
2007-12-17 17:48   ` Al Viro
2007-12-17 17:55   ` Eric Dumazet
2007-12-17 18:05     ` Ray Lee [this message]
2007-12-17 18:10       ` Eric Dumazet
2007-12-17 18:12         ` Ray Lee
2007-12-17 18:23     ` Al Viro
2007-12-17 18:28     ` [Security] Signed divides vs shifts (Re: " Linus Torvalds
2007-12-17 19:08       ` Al Viro

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