Re: [PATCH v3 12/16] cifs: Fix reading into an ITER_FOLIOQ from the smbdirect code

[David Howells]

Tom Talpey <tom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Shouldn't there be some kind of validity check on the rfc1002 length
> field before this? For example, the high octet of that field is
> required to be zero (by SMB) and the 24-bit length is not necessarily
> checked yet. The original code just returned the decoded value but
> this sticks it in the msg_iter. If that's safe, then ok but it seems
> odd.

That should be a separate bugfix, I think.

David