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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:42:13 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>, Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>, Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] kernel.h: Introduce const_max() for VLA removal
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> To gain the ability to compare differing types, the arguments are
> explicitly cast to size_t.
Ugh, I really hate this.
It silently does insane things if you do
const_max(-1,6)
and there is nothing in the name that implies that you can't use
negative constants.
Linus
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