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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: He Zhe <zhe.he@windriver.com>,
	pmladek@suse.com, sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] printk: Fix panic caused by passing log_buf_len to command line
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:05:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180918230537.30448bd7@vmware.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180919024754.GA15128@jagdpanzerIV>

On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 11:47:54 +0900
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com> wrote:

> On (09/18/18 22:43), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > >  First  - switch to u64 size.
> > >  Second - check for NULL str.
> > >   
> > I think I would switch it around. Check for NULL first, and then switch
> > to u64. It was always an int, do we need to backport converting it to
> > u64 to stable? The NULL check is a definite, the overflow of int
> > shouldn't crash anything.  
> 
> Agreed. This order makes much more sense. Do you mind, tho, to have
> "unsigned int size" in the first patch along with NULL str check?
> Just to silent the checkpatch.
> 

I guess that doesn't hurt. I'd personally would keep it separate (just
fix what's broken), but it's such a slight change, I don't have any
strong feelings about it.

Thanks,


-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-19  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-18 17:17 [PATCH v2 1/2] printk: Fix panic caused by passing log_buf_len to command line zhe.he
2018-09-18 17:17 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] printk: Add KBUILD_MODNAME and correct bare use of unsigned zhe.he
2018-09-19  2:06   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-19 11:20     ` Petr Mladek
2018-09-19  1:50 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] printk: Fix panic caused by passing log_buf_len to command line Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-19  2:27   ` He Zhe
2018-09-19  2:39     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-19  2:43       ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-19  2:47         ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-19  3:05           ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2018-09-20 16:16         ` He Zhe
2018-09-20 16:30           ` Steven Rostedt
2018-09-21  7:37             ` Petr Mladek
2018-09-22 15:36               ` He Zhe
2018-09-25 12:16                 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-25 12:01               ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-25 12:23                 ` Petr Mladek
2018-09-25 12:37                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-25 13:31                   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-25 15:31                     ` He Zhe
2018-09-26 11:05                     ` Petr Mladek
2018-09-28  7:35                       ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-28  8:22                         ` He Zhe
2018-09-19  6:44     ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2018-09-19 10:09       ` He Zhe

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