Re: [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: fix integer overflow in i915_gem_execbuffer2()

From: Xi Wang
Date: Fri Apr 06 2012 - 14:17:41 EST


On Apr 6, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Chris Wilson wrote:

> That I agreed with, I just disagree with how you chose to handle it.
> Rather than continue on and attempt to vmalloc a large array we should
> just fail the ioctl with EINVAL.

Why an attempt to vmalloc? The overflow check in drm_malloc_ab()
will simply return NULL and fail the ioctl with -ENOMEM.

- xi

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