Re: [PATCH 1/2] 9p/xen: check logical size for buffer size

[Dominique Martinet]

Christian Schoenebeck wrote on Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 05:35:56PM +0100:
> Looks good (except of s/rreq/req/ mentioned by Stefano already).

Thanks for the review (I've taken this as a 'reviewed-by' under the
assumption of that fix, sorry for being a bit aggressive at collecting
these -- I'd rather overcredit work being done than the other way around)

I'll send this and the three other commits in my 9p-next branch to Linus
tomorrow around this time:
https://github.com/martinetd/linux/commits/9p-next


> >  		memcpy(&req->rc, &h, sizeof(h));
> 
> Is that really OK?
> 
> 1. `h` is of type xen_9pfs_header and declared as packed, whereas `rc` is of 
>    type p9_fcall not declared as packed.
> 
> 2. Probably a bit dangerous to assume the layout of xen_9pfs_header being in
>    sync with the starting layout of p9_fcall without any compile-time 
>    assertion?

I've done this in a follow up that will be sent to Linus later as per
Stefano's suggestion.

-- 
Dominique