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
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