netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] xfrm: correctly check policy index in verify_newpolicy

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Date:   Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:43:30 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Yue Haibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
Cc:     steffen.klassert@...unet.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfrm: correctly check policy index in
 verify_newpolicy_info

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 05:56:00PM +0800, Yue Haibing wrote:
>
> the check. Then __xfrm_policy_unlink use the index to access array policy_count
> whose size is XFRM_POLICY_MAX * 2, triggering out of bounds access.

No it doesn't.  Even if it did the bug would be in __xfrm_policy_unlink
and not here.

Your patch makes no sense.

Cheers,
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