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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [G[PATCH 1/2][ENETLINK] max cmd boundary chec
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:52:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1164984758.3562.57.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061201144058.GG8693@postel.suug.ch>

On Fri, 2006-01-12 at 15:40 +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:

> There is no way to fix this in the interface. If you do u8 op = 312
> and ignore the compiler warning which states that the value has been
> truncated it can't be helped, the interface will see op = 56 

Indeed I think this is what i saw. 
312 == 0x138
This will be chopped to 0x38 == decimal 56

> and register it normally. 
> It is logically impossible to have more than 256
> entries on the cmd list, 
> the boundry check you're adding is completely
> useless.

You cannot have more than 256 commands because 0x138 and 0x38 are
treated as the same command. So does 0x238, 0x1138...
It is useless/unneeded if the register ops will always see the chopped
value. Is this so?

cheers,
jamal


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-01 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-01 11:30 [G[PATCH 1/2][ENETLINK] max cmd boundary chec jamal
2006-12-01 12:49 ` Thomas Graf
2006-12-01 14:30   ` jamal
2006-12-01 14:40     ` Thomas Graf
2006-12-01 14:52       ` jamal [this message]
2006-12-01 15:16         ` Thomas Graf
2006-12-01 15:54           ` jamal

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