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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pipe: Fail cleanly when root tries F_SETPIPE_SZ with big size
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:25:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111118202552.GB2203@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1321646674-26890-1-git-send-email-levinsasha928@gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 10:04:34PM +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:

> +	if (nr_pages * sizeof(struct pipe_buffer) > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
> +		return -ENOMEM;

nr_pages is unsigned long, sizeof is greater than 1, KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE is
unsigned long...  So write that check as KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE / sizeof > nr_pages

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-18 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-18 20:04 [PATCH] pipe: Fail cleanly when root tries F_SETPIPE_SZ with big size Sasha Levin
2011-11-18 20:25 ` Al Viro [this message]
2011-11-18 21:04   ` Pekka Enberg
2011-11-18 21:20     ` Davidlohr Bueso

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