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From: Hannes Eder <heder@google.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipvs: Add boundary check on ioctl arguments
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:33:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b5ddba180909300833g2b1fd22ak3e094e10fe10e8a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090930171833.5ce0011d@infradead.org>

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 17:18, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:38:12 +0200
> Hannes Eder <heder@google.com> wrote:
>>  > @@ -2353,17 +2357,25 @@ do_ip_vs_get_ctl(struct sock *sk, int cmd,
>>  > void __user
>> *user, int *len)
>>  >  {
>>  >    unsigned char arg[128];
>>
>> can MAX_ARG_LEN be used here?
>
> I am not convinced... it is a different numerical value,
> so it could be an ABI change. Rather not do that in this
> type of patch...

For do_ip_vs_set_ctl MAX_ARG_LEN is used:

static int
do_ip_vs_set_ctl(struct sock *sk, int cmd, void __user *user, unsigned int len)
{
	int ret;
	unsigned char arg[MAX_ARG_LEN];
...

I assume that will be fine for do_ip_vs_get_ctl as well.

-Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-30 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-30 11:11 [PATCH] ipvs: Add boundary check on ioctl arguments Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-30 13:38 ` Hannes Eder
2009-09-30 15:18   ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-30 15:33     ` Hannes Eder [this message]
2009-09-30 19:41     ` Julian Anastasov
2009-10-01  7:22       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-10-02  8:35     ` Julian Anastasov
2009-12-15  6:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-12-15  6:32   ` Simon Horman
2009-12-24  4:16     ` Simon Horman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-12-29  1:58 Simon Horman
2010-01-04 13:59 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-01-04 15:34   ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-04 15:39     ` Patrick McHardy
2010-01-04 23:25       ` Simon Horman

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