public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: daw@cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] net: fix an array index overflow
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:05:54 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hf3et2$2da$1@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20091201082901.4678.16688.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain

Amerigo Wang  wrote:
> Don't use the address of an out-of-boundary element.

Why not?  There is nothing wrong with using a pointer to an element
one-past-the-end in this way.  It's idiomatic C.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-01 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-01  8:26 [Patch] net: fix an array index overflow Amerigo Wang
2009-12-01  8:48 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-12-01  8:56   ` Cong Wang
2009-12-01 16:05 ` David Wagner [this message]
2009-12-02 13:24 ` Dan Carpenter
2009-12-03  8:30   ` Cong Wang

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='hf3et2$2da$1@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu' \
    --to=daw@cs.berkeley.edu \
    --cc=daw-news@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox