From: "Stephen Biggs" <s.biggs@softier.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in kernel code?
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:29:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D6BEF22.21951.10E69E8@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020827.203946.102043898.davem@redhat.com>
On 27 Aug 2002 at 20:39, David S. Miller wrote:
> How about (unsigned long)(~0)?
>
> Realistically possible with any known configuration?
>
You tell me. You're saying a billion pages (((unsigned long)(~0)) >> 2) also crashes) is never
going to be realistically possible? Sounds like Bill Gates when he said (and I don't know the word-
for-word quote) "Who's ever going to need more than 640K??" What if we get into 64 bit addressing?
What if there is some sort of bug that passes all 1s on the stack for just this one instance?
Never could "realistically" happen? Yeah, right; I've seen weirder things than that.
It's a question of mandatory paranoid sanity checking in an OS wherever possible. Linux is trying
to be known as robust. Are you saying that a supposedly robust kernel should have a chance to
crash in an infinite loop during initialization because there isn't code doing input validation
when there isn't an optimization or speed issue?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-28 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <3D6BB5C3.16057.2E515C@localhost>
[not found] ` <20020827.172304.22017977.davem@redhat.com>
2002-08-28 0:32 ` Bug in kernel code? Stephen C. Biggs
2002-08-28 0:29 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 0:40 ` Stephen C. Biggs
2002-08-28 0:42 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 1:09 ` Stephen C. Biggs
2002-08-28 1:09 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 1:24 ` Stephen C. Biggs
2002-08-28 1:23 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 2:42 ` Stephen C. Biggs
2002-08-28 3:39 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 3:57 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-08-28 3:58 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 4:10 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-08-28 4:07 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 4:29 ` Luca Barbieri
2002-08-28 4:29 ` Stephen Biggs [this message]
2002-08-28 4:26 ` David S. Miller
2002-08-28 21:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-28 2:49 ` Re[2]: " Stephen C. Biggs
2002-08-28 0:54 ` Stephen C. Biggs
2002-08-28 0:25 Stephen C. Biggs
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