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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] fs/afs/vlocation.c: fix off-by-one
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:24:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071029152447.GP7227@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3357.1193662826@redhat.com>

On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:00:26PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > This patch fixes an off-by-one error spotted by the Coverity checker.
> 
> NAK.
> 
> Why do you assume it's a NUL-terminated string?  It's not.  It's a fixed
> length character array that gets padded out with NULs.
> 
> Look 9 lines further down in the file from the change you made.  You'll notice
> it is using memcmp() not strcmp().

Check the last line of the patch I sent:
  if (vl->vldb.name[namesz] != '\0')

> David

cu
Adrian

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        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-29 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-27 14:19 [2.6 patch] fs/afs/vlocation.c: fix off-by-one Adrian Bunk
2007-10-29 13:00 ` David Howells
2007-10-29 15:24   ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2007-10-29 15:30     ` David Howells

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