Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net v2 2/2] ice: fix stats array overflow via proper realloc

Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.osuosl.intel-wired-lan,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:52:39 +0200 Przemek Kitszel wrote:
> I see no point documenting such minor details in commit message.
> 
> As a whole, this patch trades a real bug - memory overwrite -  for
> a slightly different order of operations and slightly different
> failure point when there is no memory

My concern is that you're backing out of the promise not to turn
a fail in kmalloc() during ethtool -L into a broken interface.
Fix it right?
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