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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:20:07 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, kris@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if_media.c 
Message-ID:  <19463.983179207@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Feb 2001 01:16:57 PST." <20010226011657.A8663@fw.wintelcom.net> 

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I can't see why it can't wait the usual 72 hours ?

In message <20010226011657.A8663@fw.wintelcom.net>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>This needs to be MFC'd _urgently_, but i have to catch a plane
>early tomrrow, can someone make sure this gets tested and committed
>to releng4?
>
>thanks.
>
>* Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org> [010226 01:07] wrote:
>> alfred      2001/02/26 01:07:55 PST
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/net              if_media.c 
>>   Log:
>>   Santize a size variable passed to kernel malloc.
>>   
>>   Since we know there's always an upper bound we force that bound,
>>   otherwise users can cause a panic via malloc getting hit with a
>>   odd (huge or negative) amount of memory to allocate.
>>   
>>   Tested by: kris
>>   Pointed out by: Andrey Valyaev <dron@infosec.ru>
>>   
>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>   1.12      +21 -11    src/sys/net/if_media.c
>
>-- 
>-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
>

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