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From: "Markus Rechberger" <mrechberger@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Handling ioctl() argp memory
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:49:57 +0100
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Cc: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>, linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org

On 3/5/07, leslie.polzer@gmx.net <leslie.polzer@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:54:37AM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
>
> > You're probably overwriting the beginning of the allocated block.
> What do you mean by that?  I can surely write to allocated memory, at
> the start, end and any point between...
>
> Besides, for the record: a short Valgrind run (thanks for the reminder!)
> showed me that I calculated the space wrongly, i.e. I allocated not
> enough memory.
>

that's what I thought. I just saw that your loop over the array didn't
depend on the defined values which were used for allocating.

Markus