linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v13 5/9] drm/i915: Check for integer truncation on scatterlist creation

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Date:   Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:06:07 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Gwan-gyeong Mun <gwan-gyeong.mun@...el.com>,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 5/9] drm/i915: Check for integer truncation on
 scatterlist creation

On Wed, Sep 28, 2022 at 10:09:04AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Kees, you need to reign in the craziness in overflow.h.

Understood. I've been trying to help the drm folks walk a line between
having a bunch of custom macros hidden away in the drm includes and
building up generalized versions that are actually helpful beyond drm.
But I can see that it doesn't help to have a "do two things at the same
time" macro for the assignment checking.

-- 
Kees Cook