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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
	llvm@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/82] overflow: Expand check_add_overflow() for pointer addition
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:57:30 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202401261456.3D126A50D7@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240126225257.lfgeom4rhjzx2wrf@google.com>

On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 10:52:57PM +0000, Justin Stitt wrote:
> [...]
> >  /**
> >   * check_sub_overflow() - Calculate subtraction with overflow checking
> 
> Does check_sub_overflow() deserve some more love in the future? I
> imagine "under"-flowing pointers is not at all common, though.

Yes, though I hadn't found any cases of it yet in the code, so I didn't
want to add a helper that would go unused. :)

> Nonetheless, this all looks good to me.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>

Thanks!

-- 
Kees Cook

      reply	other threads:[~2024-01-26 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20240122235208.work.748-kees@kernel.org>
2024-01-23  0:26 ` [PATCH 01/82] overflow: Expand check_add_overflow() for pointer addition Kees Cook
2024-01-26 22:52   ` Justin Stitt
2024-01-26 22:57     ` Kees Cook [this message]

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