Re: [oss-security] Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] ozwpan: unchecked signed subtraction leads to DoS

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On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You sure do like wrapping to a high value and testing the result for
> wrapping instead of validating before doing the subtraction...

I do indeed. It seems like asking "did it overflow?" is more
straight-forward and easier to read than trying to come up with the
necessary conditions to check for "will it overflow?". Personal
preference, I guess.
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