On 10/16, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:43:48PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > Yes, we can copy the garbage to the userspace. So what? This should not > > matter at all. Exactly because userspace should never used the data after > > the end of string, no? > > Security people tell me to _never_ leak anything. I'm not near creative > enough to exploit such a thing; but I am amazed at the techniques I do > read about at times. So its really a better safe than sorry thing.
OK. Still we can cleanup/simplify this. see the next email... Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
