On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 12:23:47PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 10:01:54 +0100 > Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 05:11:10PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > > > Static analysis reports that 'offset' may be a user controlled value > > > > Can I see the rule that determined that? It does not feel like that is > > correct, given the 3+ levels deep that this function gets this value > > from... > > On a current x86 you can execute something upwards of 150 instructions in > a speculation window. Yeah, I agree, it's deep :( But for this patch, I thought the prior review determined that it was not a problem. Was that somehow proven incorrect? thanks, greg k-h
