[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/2] mem: check if allocation size is too big

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Mon Apr 30 14:49:32 CEST 2018


On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:21:42PM +0100, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> Mapping size is a 64-bit integer, but mmap() will accept size_t for
> size mappings. A user could request a mapping with an alignment, which
> would have overflown size_t, so check if (size + alignment) will
> overflow size_t.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>



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