netdev - Re: [PATCH V3] hippi: fix possible buffer overflow caused by bad DMA value in rr_start

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Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 18:58:20 +0200
From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
To: Huai-Yuan Liu <qq810974084@...il.com>, linux-hippi@...site.dk,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 Jes Sorensen <jes@...ined-monkey.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 Sunil Kovvuri Goutham <sgoutham@...vell.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] hippi: fix possible buffer overflow caused by bad DMA
 value in rr_start_xmit()

> …. Becausetxctrl->pi is assigned to …

     Word separation?

> To address this issue, the index should be checked.

Can an imperative wording be more desirable for such a change description?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=v6.10-rc4#n94

Regards,
Markus