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From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com>
Cc: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Lucas Bates <lucasb@mojatatu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/sched: flower: fix infinite loop in fl_walk()
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 17:05:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM_iQpVT3dUKoZjeZDE3Mmk8C8OMtOE4_05Wq19C7VWDTQeSSw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM_iQpXj1A05FdbD93iWQp9Tcd6aW0BQ3_xFx8bNEbqA00RGAg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 12:29 PM Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:07 AM Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On one hand, its callers should not need to worry about details
> > like overflow. On the other hand, in fact it does exactly what its
> > callers tell it to do, the problematic part is actually the
> > incremented id. On 64bit, it is fairly easy, we can just simply
> > know 'long' is longer than 32bit and leverage this to detect overflow,
> > but on 32bit this clearly doesn't work.
> >
> > Let me think about it.
>
> Davide, do you mind to try the attached patch?
>
> It should handle this overflow case more gracefully, I hope.

Well, it looks like it would miss UINT_MAX... Let me see how this
can be fixed.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-26  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-19 21:09 [PATCH net] net/sched: flower: fix infinite loop in fl_walk() Davide Caratti
2019-06-19 22:04 ` Cong Wang
2019-06-20 12:52   ` Davide Caratti
2019-06-20 17:33     ` Cong Wang
2019-06-25 15:47       ` Davide Caratti
2019-06-25 16:23         ` Davide Caratti
2019-06-25 18:07         ` Cong Wang
2019-06-25 19:29           ` Cong Wang
2019-06-26  0:05             ` Cong Wang [this message]
2019-06-26 21:15             ` Cong Wang
2019-06-27 22:10               ` Davide Caratti
2019-06-28  1:24                 ` Cong Wang

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