Re: [PATCH rdma-next 2/5] RDMA/mlx5: Check that supplied blue flame index doesn't overflow

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On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 07:47:00AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:

> > Why would that be needed? bfregn can remain int inside the function
> > and since it is already prooven to be positive the implicit cast to
> > unsigned will not truncate, while the user controlled u32 will be
> > passed without mangling to the bounding check.
> 
> Because explicit is always better than implicit, and it is wrong to
> leave in the code place which relies on that.

Well, the entire bug here is implicit casting of a u32 to an int, so,
please fix that somehow in v2..

Jason

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