From: "Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>
To: Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@gmail.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] xen/gntalloc: make grant counters unsigned
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2026 09:52:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5bedb3af-57ed-423b-ac84-e539cace8002@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260626223805.43781-2-alhouseenyousef@gmail.com>
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On 27.06.26 00:38, Yousef Alhouseen wrote:
> The module limit and current allocation count cannot validly be
> negative. Give both variables unsigned types so their representation
> matches the u32 grant count supplied through the ioctl and negative
> module parameter values are rejected by parameter parsing.
>
> This also prepares the limit check for overflow-safe unsigned
> arithmetic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Juergen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-01 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-24 12:47 [PATCH] xen/gntalloc: validate grant count before allocation Yousef Alhouseen
2026-06-26 12:14 ` Juergen Gross
2026-06-26 22:38 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Yousef Alhouseen
2026-06-26 22:38 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] xen/gntalloc: make grant counters unsigned Yousef Alhouseen
2026-07-01 7:52 ` Jürgen Groß [this message]
2026-06-26 22:38 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] xen/gntalloc: validate grant count before allocation Yousef Alhouseen
2026-07-01 7:53 ` Jürgen Groß
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