linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] lib: fix _parse_integer

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Message-ID: <c49751e8971a77c9847baad442ea7800e9d6e03f.camel@yandex.ru>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:04:14 +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, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] lib: fix _parse_integer_limit() to handle
 overflow

On Wed, 2026-02-04 at 16:31 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> In case you would need a v6, we can leave some of the lines untouched if we
> switch to for-loop instead of while, but it might make the for-loop quite long.

Hmm...the for-loop might be:

for (res = 0, rv = 0; max_chars--; rv++, s++) {
        ...
}

and it makes _parse_integer_limit() a few lines shorter.

Dmitry