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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@?(B" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org, davem@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6]: IPv6: strcpy -> strlcpy
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:46:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031127194602.A25015@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031127.210953.116254624.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>; from yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org on Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:09:53PM +0900

On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:09:53PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@?(B wrote:
> In article <1069934643.2393.0.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> (at Thu, 27 Nov 2003 13:04:04 +0100), Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org> says:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 11:59, David S. Miller wrote:
> > 
> > > I agree, using sizeof() is the less error prone way of
> > > doing things like this.
> > > 
> > > Felipe could you please rewrite your patch like this?
> > 
> > Done!
> 
> Thanks. Ok to me.

I'm slightly cautious here, although I haven't read the patch yet.
Did anyone consider whether any of these structures were copied to
user space, and whether, as a result of this change, we're now
copying uninitialised data to users?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-27 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-27  8:14 [PATCH 2.6]: IPv6: strcpy -> strlcpy Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-11-27  8:33 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-11-27 10:59   ` David S. Miller
2003-11-27 12:04     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-11-27 12:09       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-11-27 19:46         ` Russell King [this message]
2003-11-27 19:54           ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-11-27 20:00             ` Russell King
2003-11-27 20:47               ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-11-27 21:14                 ` Murray J. Root
2003-11-27 22:06               ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-11-27 22:19                 ` Russell King
2003-11-27 22:33                   ` Russell King
2003-11-28  1:34                     ` Mitchell Blank Jr
2003-11-27 23:03                   ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-11-28  0:23                     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-11-28  0:26                       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-11-28  0:40                         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-11-28  9:54                           ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-11-28 11:22                           ` Jörn Engel
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     [not found]           ` <WCOd.3u0.1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-11-28 14:04             ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau

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