linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: vt6655: fix potential memory conruption bug

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Date:   Fri, 9 Sep 2022 08:01:29 +0200
From:   Nam Cao <namcaov@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     forest@...ttletooquiet.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: vt6655: fix potential memory conruption bug

Hi Greg,

Just out of curiosity, how can we be sure that sizeof(unsigned int)
is never 8 bytes? The C standard doesn't say anything about this, as
far as I know.

Patch v2 will come later today or tomorrow.

Best regards,
Nam

On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 7:47 AM Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> sizeof(unsigned int) is not going to be 8 bytes, so there's no memory
> issue here.  But your fix is good, so can you please just rewrite this
> to be "make it more obvious what is happening" type of patch?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h