From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:11:13 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] Staging: silicom: add some range checks to proc functions
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:08:30AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 09:56:00AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > If you tried to cat more than 255 characters (the last character is for
> > the terminator) to these proc files then it would corrupt kernel memory.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> 
> Actually sorry for this, I meant to check first before sending.  Is
> it possible to do a zero size write to a proc file?  In sysfs it
> isn't but I'm not sure about proc.
> 
> I may need to redo this.

I'm just busy having a conversation with myself.  This patch is
correct.  Please apply it after all.

regards,
dan carpenter