linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] lib: fix _parse_integer

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Message-ID: <2755955ff36c1283aba1c9a854d85de533bcd24a.camel@yandex.ru>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:22:30 +0300
From: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@...dex.ru>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>, 
 "Darrick J . Wong"
	 <djwong@...nel.org>, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] lib: fix _parse_integer_limit() to handle
 overflow

On Wed, 2026-02-04 at 01:47 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> > +			} else
> > +				res = res * base + val;
> 
> Formally this should be } else { ... }, but I'm not going to insist.

No problem since there will be v5 with one more overflow detection
quirk around memparse() :-).

Dmitry