netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 1/3] net/packet: fix overflow in check for priv area size

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Date:   Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:50:49 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
Cc:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        Craig Gallek <cgallek@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 1/3] net/packet: fix overflow in check for priv
 area size

On Wed, 2017-03-29 at 16:11 +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> Subtracting tp_sizeof_priv from tp_block_size and casting to int
> to check whether one is less then the other doesn't always work
> (both of them are unsigned ints).
> 
> Compare them as is instead.
> 
> Also cast tp_sizeof_priv to u64 before using BLK_PLUS_PRIV, as
> it can overflow inside BLK_PLUS_PRIV otherwise.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>