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Re: [PATCH 3/3] sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec

From	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH 3/3] sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec
Date	2017-04-08 19:30 +0200
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On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
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> Except that doesn't help in this case.  The function do_uintvec_conv
> rules already rejects all negative values on write.  So -1 is already
> rejected.

Oh, I should have noticed that.

So yes, that patch looks good too. Will apply.

             Linus

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[PATCH 3/3] sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec Liping Zhang <zlpnobody@163.com> - 2017-04-07 18:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3/3] sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than  UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-04-07 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/3] sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2017-04-07 23:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/3] sysctl: report EINVAL if value is larger than  UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-04-08 19:30 +0200

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