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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>,
	Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
	Stephan Mueller <smueller@chronox.de>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KEYS: DH: validate __spare field
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 09:19:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13537.1499415580@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170703205041.15788-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com>

Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> wrote:

> Syscalls must validate that their reserved arguments are zero and return
> EINVAL otherwise.  Otherwise, it will be impossible to actually use them
> for anything in the future because existing programs may be passing
> garbage in.  This is standard practice when adding new APIs.

Fine by me.  Mat?

David

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-07  8:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-03 20:50 [PATCH] KEYS: DH: validate __spare field Eric Biggers
2017-07-07  8:19 ` David Howells [this message]
2017-07-07 16:04   ` Mat Martineau

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