Re: [PATCH v6 2/5] lib: fix memparse() to handle overflow

From: Dmitry Antipov

Date: Thu Feb 12 2026 - 06:22:24 EST


On Tue, 2026-02-10 at 09:51 +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> Strictly speaking this is an ABI breakage. I dunno how many (broken) strings
> will stop working after this check.

Yes, but this is for the corner case only (where ULLONG_MAX is used instead of
ignoring an overflow). And finding more bugs is better than silently hiding them.

Dmitry