From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, davem@davemloft.net,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Prevent kernel stack corruption on long values of flush
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:33:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120718203304.GA18540@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120718200049.GA17964@umich.edu>
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 04:00:49PM -0400, Jim Rees wrote:
> You could use something like:
>
> char tbuf[sizeof (unsigned long) * 24 / 10 + 1 + 2]; /* + 2 for final "\n\0" */
>
> since there are roughly 10 bits for every 3 decimal digits.
>
> But I'm obviously confused, because I don't understand why tbuf needs to be
> any more than 10 + 2.
Unsigned long isn't necessarily 32 bits.
On 64-bit systems %lu can be up to 18446744073709551615
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-18 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-16 22:01 [PATCH] SUNRPC: Prevent kernel stack corruption on long values of flush Sasha Levin
2012-07-18 17:39 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-07-18 20:00 ` Jim Rees
2012-07-18 20:33 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2012-07-18 20:55 ` Jim Rees
2012-10-17 18:29 ` Boaz Harrosh
2012-10-18 8:34 ` David Laight
2012-07-18 21:08 ` J. Bruce Fields
[not found] ` <50072BA7.6070205@gmail.com>
2012-07-18 21:43 ` Sasha Levin
2012-07-18 23:04 ` Jim Rees
2012-10-17 17:59 ` Sasha Levin
2012-10-17 19:02 ` J. Bruce Fields
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