netdev - Re: [Security] [PATCH] Integer overflow in RDS cmsg handling

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Date:	Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:11:57 -0500
From:	Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, andy.grover@...cle.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, security@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [Security] [PATCH] Integer overflow in RDS cmsg handling


> 
> Why is the cast there? It looks really odd. And it's definitely
> pointless, since nr_local is already "uint64_t".
> 

I agree - I was just imitating the original code.  Of course feel free
to alter my patch as you wish.

-Dan

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