Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] kasan: add test for invalid size in memmove

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jan 30 2020 - 21:16:20 EST


On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:43:58 +0800 Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2019-11-22 at 06:21 +0800, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> >
> > On 11/12/19 9:53 AM, Walter Wu wrote:
> > > Test negative size in memmove in order to verify whether it correctly
> > > get KASAN report.
> > >
> > > Casting negative numbers to size_t would indeed turn up as a large
> > > size_t, so it will have out-of-bounds bug and be detected by KASAN.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Walter Wu <walter-zh.wu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Andrey, Dmitry, Andrew,
>
> Would you tell me why this patch-sets don't merge into linux-next tree?
> We lost something?
>

In response to [1/2] Andrey said "So let's keep this code as this" and
you said "I will send a new v5 patch tomorrow". So we're awaiting a v5
patchset?