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Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:47:28 +1030 From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm00@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmod: prevent kmod_loop_msg overflow in __request_module() On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:18:17 +0200 (CEST), Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Well, it will take two billion passes through here to cause the > > overflow. I really hope you found this problem by inspection! > > Unfortunately not, it was more painful experience than code reading :) Cool! Changing it to unsigned would have helped too. But I've applied this.... Thanks, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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