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Message-Id: <20161119.221154.342519376993786527.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 19 Nov 2016 22:11:54 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     adobriyan@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: use "unsigned int" in nla_next()

From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 03:54:35 +0300

> ->nla_len is unsigned entity (it's length after all) and u16,
> thus it can't overflow when being aligned into int/unsigned int.
> 
> (nlmsg_next has the same code, but I didn't yet convince myself
> it is correct to do so).
> 
> There is pointer arithmetic in this function and offset being
> unsigned is better:
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>

Applied to net-next.

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