Re: [conntrack-utils PATCH r7285 07/11] use size_t

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Max Kellermann wrote:
> On 2008/01/23 13:29, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have kept remain signed since a malformed header can result in an
>> overflow.
> 
> How?  And how will making it signed help?

Indeed. This doesn't make any sense. I thought that if net->len may be
bigger than remain, thus remain becomes negative and we stop looping.
But this condition is never true since we have already checked that
net->len <= remain in the beginning of the loop. I have changed remain
to size_t.

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