From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ffusco@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] sysctl: range checking in do_proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies_conv
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:23:00 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130726.142300.2079205413428223270.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de72e4265ab874b70b127011bb1ef8c2d27bfe63.1374654531.git.ffusco@redhat.com>
From: Francesco Fusco <ffusco@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:39:07 +0200
> When (integer) sysctl values are expressed in ms and have to be
> represented internally as jiffies. The msecs_to_jiffies function
> returns an unsigned long, which gets assigned to the integer.
> This patch prevents the value to be assigned if bigger than
> INT_MAX, done in a similar way as in cba9f3 ("Range checking in
> do_proc_dointvec_(userhz_)jiffies_conv").
>
> Signed-off-by: Francesco Fusco <ffusco@redhat.com>
Applied with the changes suggested by Sergei.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-26 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-24 8:39 [PATCH net-next 0/2] Fix overflow errors in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/neigh/ Francesco Fusco
2013-07-24 8:39 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] neigh: prevent overflowing params " Francesco Fusco
2013-07-26 21:22 ` David Miller
2013-07-24 8:39 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] sysctl: range checking in do_proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies_conv Francesco Fusco
2013-07-24 14:35 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-07-26 21:23 ` David Miller [this message]
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