On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 08:27:09PM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > To protect against the "unsigned long long" length being too big why > not pick a large power of two and if someone can justify a larger > value, they can send a patch. > > if (length > 64ULL * 1024 * 1024 * 1024) > return NULL;
That is not how we protect against arithemetic overflows in the kernel Jason