linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] af_netlink: give correct bounds to dump skb for NLMSG

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Message-ID: <CAHmME9qgcT-wzVeu47VvPcD6vnJBvD-wo8SOELVM7Sn70DSX+Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 8 Nov 2017 15:35:17 +0900
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_netlink: give correct bounds to dump skb for NLMSG_DONE

Hi Johannes,

Yes indeed. It sacrifices 24 bytes for making things much less
complex. However, if you prefer increasing the complexity of the state
machine a bit instead, I suppose we could roll with this approach
instead...

Jason