On Mon, 18 Jan 2016, Insu Yun wrote: > If nents value is sufficient large, e.g 0x40000000, > then it can overflow size in kmalloc and heap overflow happesns. > Therefore nents value needs to be checked to prevent overflow. I don't see why. You seem to be assuming that failure with -EINVAL is better than failure with a heap overflow. I disagree; a heap overflow provides more debugging information to help locate the reason for the underlying problem. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
