netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Limit socket I/O iovec total length to INT

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Message-ID: <AANLkTikGkfcHdemZwURrYLPBC1QQnbQP_g-7YadzeE-D@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:37:29 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jon.maloy@...csson.com, allan.stephens@...driver.com,
	drosenberg@...curity.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Limit socket I/O iovec total length to INT_MAX.

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 12:32 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> I just got out of a long dentist appointment, will look at this right
> now, thanks!

I booted with it and committed it as "obvious". Let's see if there is
any fallout. I doubt it, but I also doubt we'll find any until we have
lots of testers, unless I made some subtly totally buggy change that
just didn't happen to show up during a normal boot.

                      Linus
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