Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] kernel.h: Introduce const_max() for VLA removal

Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:47 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

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explicitly cast to size_t.
Ugh, I really hate this.
Ugh, I really hate this.
It silently does insane things if you do
It silently does insane things if you do
const_max(-1,6)
const_max(-1,6)
and there is nothing in the name that implies that you can't use negative constants.
negative constants.
Linus
Linus
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