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Re: [PATCH] Fix integer overflows in internal memalign and malloc functions [BZ #22343]

From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
To: Arjun Shankar <arjun dot is at lostca dot se>
Cc: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 12:59:55 -0800
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix integer overflows in internal memalign and malloc functions [BZ #22343]
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References: <20180104170250.GA72870@aloka.lostca.se> <7e9c6bd0-ddb8-72fa-4cde-6597c3d8641e@cs.ucla.edu> <0cffc8c3-bbd9-2a3b-8246-5d9d8a5d72f7@redhat.com> <20180116162714.GA36913@aloka.lostca.se>

On 01/16/2018 08:27 AM, Arjun Shankar wrote:
> I vote that we consider reviewing and checking in my original attempt at a
> fix prior to the 2.27 release, and in lieu of this we file a separate bug to
> track the removal of technical debt that already exists in the code. I'll be
> happy to take Paul's patch and run with it once master opens for development
> again.

I think an immediate fix is the right solution for 2.27, these overflows in
malloc are bad.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.

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