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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent reading uninitialized memory with socketfilters
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:32:34 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101110.103234.183039029.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201011102325.JAF82308.OSVLFHtFJMQFOO@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>

From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:25:08 +0900

> Just I thought...
> 
>> unsigned int sk_run_filter(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sock_filter *filter, int flen)
>> {
>> 	struct sock_filter *fentry;     /* We walk down these */
> Can't this be "const struct sock_filter *"?
>> (...snipped...)
>> 	for (pc = 0; pc < flen; pc++) {
>> 		fentry = &filter[pc];
> Can't we do
> 		u32 f_k = fentry->k;
> and replace 27 repetition of fentry->k with f_k?

Yes, this feedback seems reasonable, I'll make these changes when I
apply Eric's patch, thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-10 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-09 22:28 [PATCH] Prevent reading uninitialized memory with socket filters Dan Rosenberg
2010-11-09 23:03 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-10  5:28 ` David Miller
2010-11-10  5:53   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-10  7:22     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-10 14:25       ` [PATCH] Prevent reading uninitialized memory with socketfilters Tetsuo Handa
2010-11-10 18:32         ` David Miller [this message]
2010-11-10 18:39         ` David Miller
2010-11-10 20:57           ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-10 20:59             ` David Miller
2010-11-10 21:25               ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-10 11:12   ` [PATCH] Prevent reading uninitialized memory with socket filters Dan Rosenberg
2010-11-10 13:19     ` Dan Rosenberg
2010-11-10 18:07     ` David Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-11-10 18:18 [PATCH] Prevent reading uninitialized memory with socketfilters Dan Rosenberg
2010-11-10 18:21 ` David Miller
2010-11-10 18:33   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-11-10 18:38     ` David Miller
2010-11-10 18:25 Dan Rosenberg

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