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

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Date:	Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:22:49 -0400
From:	Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jon.maloy@...csson.com,
	allan.stephens@...driver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Limit socket I/O iovec total length to INT_MAX.

Thanks for your work on this.  Just a friendly reminder not to forget
the compat code.  :)

-Dan

On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 12:55 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 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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