On Tue 13-02-18 16:49:20, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 13/02/2018 16:44, Michal Hocko wrote: > > On Tue 13-02-18 16:03:09, Paolo Bonzini wrote: [...] > >> There have been quite a few reports of this from syzkaller and generally > >> we've fixed them. It does seem like a recipe for NULL-pointer > >> dereferences when the size is user-controlled (as in this case). > > > > We do return NULL for that case regardless the above. The patch just > > doesn't warn. Or do you think it is helpful to warn? > > It certainly helps bringing potential issues in the spotlight (through > fuzzing, mostly).
Fair enough. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
