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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fix stack memory content leak via UNAME26
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:44:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121010164426.761987e0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jJ_tQF9LUBgsAk+xdXTppGidakkd4gaDvGtSbpAeH21Dw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:36:44 -0700
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> > would suffice?
> >
> > Not a big deal I guess, but copying out stuff beyond the NUL is a bit odd.
> 
> Sure, that looks good to me.

I think I'll stick with your tested patch for now.  Could you please
add "clean that up" to your todo list?


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-10 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-09 22:54 [PATCH v2] fix stack memory content leak via UNAME26 Kees Cook
2012-10-10 20:46 ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-10 22:31   ` Kees Cook
2012-10-10 22:46     ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-10 23:36       ` Kees Cook
2012-10-10 23:44         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-10-11  0:39           ` Kees Cook

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