Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] minmax: sanity check constant bounds when clamping

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Tue Oct 04 2022 - 09:42:15 EST


On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 8:26 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 03:34:34PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> > The clamp family of functions only makes sense if hi>=lo. If hi and lo
> > are compile-time constants, then raise a build error. Doing so has
> > already caught buggy code. This also introduces the infrastructure to
> > improve the clamping function in subsequent commits.
> >
> > Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Wondering - did you ever queue this up for 6.1? I assume the plan is
to hold off on 2/2 for the time being, but this 1/2 is good to have
either way.

Jason