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Message-ID: <20120718205510.GA18374@umich.edu>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:55:10 -0400
From:	Jim Rees <rees@...ch.edu>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Trond.Myklebust@...app.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Prevent kernel stack corruption on long values
 of flush

Dave Jones wrote:

  On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 04:00:49PM -0400, Jim Rees wrote:
  
   > You could use something like:
   > 
   >     char tbuf[sizeof (unsigned long) * 24 / 10 + 1 + 2]; /* + 2 for final "\n\0" */
   > 
   > since there are roughly 10 bits for every 3 decimal digits.
   > 
   > But I'm obviously confused, because I don't understand why tbuf needs to be
   > any more than 10 + 2.
  
  Unsigned long isn't necessarily 32 bits.
  On 64-bit systems %lu can be up to 18446744073709551615

Thanks.  You caught me thinking "Intel."  How embarrassing.
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