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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: walter harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] relay: prevent integer overflow in relay_open()
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:36:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120209123617.GC4141@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F33B448.1040207@bfs.de>

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On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:55:52PM +0100, walter harms wrote:
> numerical this is ok, but ...
> maybe it is better to cap the chan->n_subbufs at a useful number ?

We considered this question already earlier in the thread.

> The user can still allocate an insane number of bytes.
> Restricting subbuf_size*n_subbufs seems more logical (otherwise is this a real problem ?)
> 

Yes.  It is a real problem.

regards,
dan carpenter


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      reply	other threads:[~2012-02-09 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-07 14:11 integer overflows in kernel/relay.c Dan Carpenter
2012-02-08  8:34 ` Jens Axboe
2012-02-08 22:25   ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-09 12:41     ` Jens Axboe
2012-02-09 17:39       ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-09 12:41     ` [PATCH RFC] slab: introduce knalloc/kxnalloc Xi Wang
2012-02-09 13:05       ` Pekka Enberg
2012-02-09 13:19         ` Jens Axboe
2012-02-09 13:26           ` Xi Wang
2012-02-09 13:48             ` [PATCH RFC v2] slab: introduce kmalloc_array Xi Wang
2012-02-09 22:42               ` David Rientjes
2012-02-09 23:08                 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-09 22:47               ` Jesper Juhl
2012-02-09 23:06                 ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-09 23:43                   ` Joe Perches
2012-02-13 15:08                   ` Xi Wang
2012-02-13 16:01                     ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-13 19:44                       ` Dan Carpenter
2012-02-13 20:27                         ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-14  7:20                           ` Dan Carpenter
2012-02-14  7:35                             ` Pekka Enberg
2012-02-14 11:12                             ` Xi Wang
2012-02-14 15:02                             ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-14 16:30                               ` Xi Wang
2012-02-14 16:34                                 ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-14 16:43                                   ` Xi Wang
2012-02-14 19:33                                     ` Uninline kcalloc Christoph Lameter
2012-02-14 19:37                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-14 20:46                                         ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-14 20:50                                         ` Nick Bowler
2012-02-14 21:24                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-15 20:17                                             ` Nick Bowler
2012-02-15 20:24                                               ` Nick Bowler
2012-02-14 20:45                                       ` Andrew Morton
2012-02-14 20:58                                         ` Pekka Enberg
2012-02-14 21:09                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-14 21:31                                             ` Pekka Enberg
2012-02-14 21:38                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-14 21:46                                             ` Xi Wang
2012-02-14 22:08                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-15 19:14                                                 ` Xi Wang
2012-02-15 19:34                                                   ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-16  3:10                                                     ` Xi Wang
2012-02-16 14:51                                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-16 18:32                                                         ` Xi Wang
2012-02-16 20:47                                                           ` Christoph Lameter
2012-02-10 13:09               ` [PATCH RFC v2] slab: introduce kmalloc_array Alexey Dobriyan
2012-02-10 13:11                 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-02-10 13:55                   ` Xi Wang
2012-02-10 13:58                     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-02-10 14:09                       ` Xi Wang
2012-02-11 12:19                         ` Alexey Dobriyan
2012-02-12  5:46                           ` Xi Wang
2012-02-09 12:56     ` integer overflows in kernel/relay.c Pekka Enberg
2012-02-09 10:44   ` [patch] relay: prevent integer overflow in relay_open() Dan Carpenter
2012-02-09 11:55     ` walter harms
2012-02-09 12:36       ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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