Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH v3 3/7] block: fix data type casting for crypto payload offset

[Eric Blake]

On 09/12/2017 06:28 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> The crypto APIs report the offset of the data payload as an uint64_t
> type, but the block driver is casting to size_t or ssize_t which will
> potentially truncate.
> 
> Most of the block APIs use int64_t for offsets meanwhile, so even if
> using uint64_t in the crypto block driver we are still at risk of
> truncation.
> 
> Change the block crypto driver to use uint64_t, but add asserts that
> the value is less than INT64_MAX.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/crypto.c | 13 +++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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