From: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: juhl-lkml@dif.dk, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
jmorris@redhat.com, waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG,
ross.biro@gmail.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [-mm PATCH] signed vs unsigned cleanup in net/ipv4/raw.c
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:28:23 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0506152127150.3842@dragon.hyggekrogen.localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050615.121628.112622743.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> I'm not merging this thing, at least no all at once.
>
> "size_t" vs. "unsigned int" vs. "int" length comparisons are where all
> the security problems come from in the protocol stack
>
> Therefore you should make a seperate patch for each type
> change you make and explain why it doesn't add some regression
> in terms of signedness issues.
>
Fair enough, I'll split it into little bits and submit them one by one
with explanations. Not a problem at all.
--
Jesper Juhl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-15 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-15 19:13 Jesper Juhl
2005-06-15 19:16 ` David S. Miller
2005-06-15 19:28 ` Jesper Juhl [this message]
2005-06-15 19:58 ` David S. Miller
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