Re: [RFC PATCH 0/1] Integer overflows while scanning for integers

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Thu Jun 08 2023 - 12:24:26 EST


----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> "some users" == "most major cloud providers and a few billion Android
> phones" So in pure numbers, the huge majority of Linux systems running
> in the world have that option enabled.
>
> So please don't use WARN() to catch issues that can be triggered by
> userspace, that can cause data loss and worse at times.

Sorry for being unclear. My goal is not having the WARN patch immediately
applied without fixing known call sites which can trigger it.

Thanks,
//richard