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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Limit socket I/O iovec total length to INT_MAX.
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:37:29 -0700

> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:32 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>>
>> I just got out of a long dentist appointment, will look at this right
>> now, thanks!
> 
> I booted with it and committed it as "obvious". Let's see if there is
> any fallout. I doubt it, but I also doubt we'll find any until we have
> lots of testers, unless I made some subtly totally buggy change that
> just didn't happen to show up during a normal boot.

It ought to be ok.

Let me send you a pull request so you can get the verify_iovec() change.