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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udev - read long lines from config files overflow fix
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 18:51:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094410271.24196.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040904170854.GA12270@spock.enterprise>

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 02:28 +0800, Arun Bhanu wrote:
> On 23:12 Sat 04 Sep     , Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Cool, a real bug :)
> > Thanks, for the patch. I think it would be better to skip lenghth exceeding
> > lines instead of cutting it and continue. While looking at it I restructured
> > the buffer reading logic a bit and fixed another stupid bug.
> Thanks for the cleanup.
> 
> You may have overlooked the fix for udev_config.c(parsing udev.conf) in
> your patch.  So, I've adapted the fixes you applied to namedev_parse.c
> to this file also.
> 
> Also, while 'eating' the whitespace the 'count' doesn't get decremented.
> This leads strncpy to copy the number of whitespace minus 1 characters
> from the next line. Minus 1 because it copies '\n' from the current
> line.

Huh, bad. Yeah, missed the first and broke the second, hope
nobody will drive a airplane with this software :)

Looks good, your patch! Many thanks,
Kay



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-05 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-04 17:08 [PATCH] udev - read long lines from config files overflow fix Arun Bhanu
2004-09-04 21:12 ` Kay Sievers
2004-09-05 18:28 ` Arun Bhanu
2004-09-05 18:51 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2004-09-10 20:03 ` Greg KH

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