linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] net-device: Use new helpers from overflow.h in netdevice APIs

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Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:31:43 -0800
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 7/8] net-device: Use new helpers from overflow.h in
 netdevice APIs

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 11:37:06AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 11:08:58 -0800 Kees Cook wrote:
> > > And some seem to be cargo-culted from out-of-tree code and are unused :S  
> > 
> > Ah, which can I remove?
> 
> The one in igc.h does not seem to be referenced by anything in the igc
> directory. Pretty sure it's unused.

I'll double check. After trying to do a few conversions I really hit
stuff I didn't like, so I took a slightly different approach in the
patch I sent.

-- 
Kees Cook