From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Arjun Shankar <arjun.is@lostca.se>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix integer overflows in internal memalign and malloc functions [BZ #22343]
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4976edfa-7e4d-04c5-b451-f1b2c02f7c5a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180116162714.GA36913@aloka.lostca.se>
On 01/16/2018 08:27 AM, Arjun Shankar wrote:
> I vote that we consider reviewing and checking in my original attempt at a
> fix prior to the 2.27 release, and in lieu of this we file a separate bug to
> track the removal of technical debt that already exists in the code. I'll be
> happy to take Paul's patch and run with it once master opens for development
> again.
I think an immediate fix is the right solution for 2.27, these overflows in
malloc are bad.
--
Cheers,
Carlos.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-16 21:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-04 17:02 Arjun Shankar
2018-01-04 17:20 ` Zack Weinberg
2018-01-04 20:32 ` Paul Eggert
2018-01-04 23:07 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-01-16 16:27 ` Arjun Shankar
2018-01-16 21:00 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2018-01-17 6:27 ` Paul Eggert
2018-01-17 14:59 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-01-16 22:31 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-01-16 22:56 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-01-17 20:26 Arjun Shankar
2018-01-17 20:52 ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-17 21:47 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-01-18 8:04 ` Florian Weimer
2018-01-19 8:32 ` Carlos O'Donell
2018-01-17 22:01 ` Carlos O'Donell
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