Re: potential bufferovflows in drivers/s390/crypto/

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On 26.06.2018 09:22, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 09:37:01AM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 08:05:47AM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
>>> This is actually already the third time that somebody reports a potential
>>> buffer overflow for this function. Could you please add a comment in the
>>> code to avoid future confusion?
>> This also confuses static analyzers and they don't read comments.
>> In one of the functions (alive in kernel 3.20) adding check is possible.
> Adding an extra, but superfluous, check would be fine with me as
> well. Given that it is obviously non-trivial to tell that this code isn't
> broken.
I'll add checks and comments. However, I will not do any backports for older kernels.

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