On May 7, Kees Cook sent a proposal to the linux-kernel mailing list, asking for the kernel developers to start working on a way to mitigate unintentional arithmetic overflow, which has been a source ...

On March 31, Kees Cook shared a patch set that represents the culmination of more than a year of work toward eliminating the possibility of silent, unintentional integer overflow in the kernel. Linus ...

An arithmetic overflow is the result of a calculation that exceeds the memory space designated to hold it. For example, a divide-by-zero yields a much larger result. See arithmetic underflow. THIS ...

You may think of Linus Torvalds as the Linux guru, but he is also a leading expert on C and often ignored and misunderstood in this role. A recent exchange on the Linux Kernel mailing list ...