From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Read buffer overflow
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 22:57:17 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19062.57005.981901.24666@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A76DB06.7090405@gmail.com>
Roel Kluin writes:
> Check whether index is within bounds before grabbing the element.
The change seems unnecessary since we only compute the address of the
element before the bounds check, we don't actually access the
element. I believe that is legal in C.
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-03 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-03 12:41 [PATCH] powerpc: Read buffer overflow Roel Kluin
2009-08-03 12:57 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2009-08-03 13:12 ` Wolfram Sang
2009-08-03 20:15 ` Segher Boessenkool
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