netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: mlx5: fix sizeof usage in health_care's reg

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Date:	Sun, 4 Aug 2013 00:42:52 +0300
From:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>, Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.com>
Cc:	ogerlitz@...lanox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eli Cohen <eli@....mellanox.co.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: mlx5: fix sizeof usage in health_care's reg_handler

On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com> wrote:

> On 08/03/2013 12:11 AM, David Miller wrote:
>>
>> From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
>> Date: Fri,  2 Aug 2013 12:16:17 +0200
>>
>>> Therefore, I strongly assume sizeof(*health->health) is being meant
>>> to be passed as an argument. Interestingly, there are actually no
>>> in-tree users of mlx5_[un]register_health_report_handler(), but some
>>> debugging modules might want to know the correct size instead.
>>
>>
>> I want these hooks and infrastructure removed immediately.
>>
>> If there are no in-tree users there is no reason for them to
>> exist at all.
>
>
> Ok, I let Or handle that. Maybe he wants to add a user of it, instead.
>
> I also noticed that coverty scanner found a couple of other issues,
> e.g. outlen_write() in mlx5/core/cmd.c does a kzalloc() without
> doing sanity checks on the user-passed allocation size, e.g. it
> could even be a negative value passed to it.

Hi Daniel,

As listed in the kernel maintainers file, Eli Cohen (copied) is the
upstream maintainer for the mlx5 driver, please make sure to send/copy him
on patches/questions you have on mlx5. I will let Eli answer/handle your
findings/questions.

Or.
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