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

From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-08-20 21:41:13
Also in: intel-wired-lan

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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