From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752288Ab2DCGjT (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2012 02:39:19 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:59362 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752040Ab2DCGjS convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2012 02:39:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:38:13 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20120403.023813.1884403672741100061.davem@davemloft.net> To: remi@remlab.net Cc: levinsasha928@gmail.com, davej@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] phonet: Check input from user before allocating From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <201204022201.41808.remi@remlab.net> <20120402.174006.70116829696492189.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.4 on Emacs 23.3 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:38:15 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Rémi Denis-Courmont Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 08:36:20 +0200 > Oh right. And Phonet devices don't support scatter/gather, so that I > guess that would merely delay the problem. And this lack of SG support in the drivers never materialized largely because the phonet stack never generated such things. So yes indeed both sides of this equation will need to be addressed.