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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: balbir_soni@hotmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Suspected bug in getpeername and getsockname
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:54:48 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020116.165448.26534238.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F232Ej1I7QY9zK4unnr000139b2@hotmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <F232Ej1I7QY9zK4unnr000139b2@hotmail.com>


You totally missed what move_addr_to_user() does, which is in fact
truncate the copied len to what the user supplied.  Also, the comments
in move_addr_to_user even quote the bits of 1003.1g you a referring
to.

In short, the bug you suggest is not there.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-17  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-16  0:51 [BUG] Suspected bug in getpeername and getsockname Balbir Singh
2002-01-17  0:54 ` David S. Miller [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-17 16:27 Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 20:24 ` kuznet
2002-01-17 21:11 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-17 22:11 Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 22:30 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-17 23:20 Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 23:26 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-17 23:35 Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 23:38 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-18  0:05 Balbir Singh

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