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

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Message-Id: <20101029.125509.104071725.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:55:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
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.

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:37:29 -0700

> 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.

It ought to be ok.

Let me send you a pull request so you can get the verify_iovec() change.
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