linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 60/60] staging: lustre: libcfs: fix minimum size check for libcfs ioctl

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Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:13:29 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        Liang Zhen <liang.zhen@...el.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Doug Oucharek <doug.s.oucharek@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
        Amir Shehata <amir.shehata@...el.com>,
        Lustre Development List <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 60/60] staging: lustre: libcfs: fix minimum size check
 for libcfs ioctl

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 02:25:22AM +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> This sounds like a separate patch. I will open a ticket about this and
> your comments below.

There are a some other places that need a size requirement like
LNetCtl().

It really feels like it should be a part of this patch because this
patch is introducing a security breakage and it's just fixing a normal
bug.

regards,
dan carpenter