11 Jan
2012
11 Jan
'12
12:31 a.m.
On Tuesday 10 January 2012 17:51:15 Doug Anderson wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
I think your patch is likely to break all these architectures?
I'm not sure how my patch would break these architectures.
if the kernel doesn't do len checking on the input string and only looks for trailing NUL byte, you could trigger a buffer overflow in the kernel. personally, i'd say that's poor behavior on the part of the kernel, but we should still be nice if possible ... -mike