linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/8] eCryptfs: Fix Tag 1 parsing code

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:53:48 -0500
From:	Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@...ibm.com>
To:	Josef Sipek <jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tchicks@...ibm.com, trevor.highland@...il.com,
	pregan@...sunysb.edu, toml@...ibm.com, sergeh@...ibm.com,
	mike@...crow.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] eCryptfs: Fix Tag 1 parsing code

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 05:41:16PM -0400, Josef Sipek wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 04:28:01PM -0500, Michael Halcrow wrote:
> > Fix up the Tag 1 parsing code to handle size limits and boundaries
> > more explicitly. Initialize the new auth_tok's flags.
> ...
> > -	if (unlikely((*packet_size) + 3 > max_packet_size)) {
> > -		ecryptfs_printk(KERN_ERR, "Packet size exceeds max\n");
> > +	if (unlikely(max_packet_size < 12)) {
> > +		printk(KERN_ERR "Invalid max packet size; must be >=12\n");
> 
> Hardcoded 12?

It's not so much a magic number if you preserve the comment
immediately above it.
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