From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
To: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>
Cc: "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"kuba@kernel.org" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"leon@kernel.org" <leon@kernel.org>,
"linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][net-next] net/mlx5: Use struct_size() helper in kvzalloc()
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:58:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210930195853.GA820136@embeddedor> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c121c9b4a21066eed32351e3324919df1c14d1c2.camel@nvidia.com>
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 07:06:32PM +0000, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-09-28 at 17:11 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > Make use of the struct_size() helper instead of an open-coded
> > version,
> > in order to avoid any potential type mistakes or integer overflows
> > that,
> > in the worse scenario, could lead to heap overflows.
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160
> > Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
>
> applied to net-next-mlx5
Thanks, Saeed.
--
Gustavo
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2021-09-28 22:11 [PATCH][net-next] net/mlx5: Use struct_size() helper in kvzalloc() Gustavo A. R. Silva
2021-09-30 19:06 ` Saeed Mahameed
2021-09-30 19:58 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva [this message]
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