Re: 2.6.13-mm3 [OOPS] vfs, page_owner, full reproductively, badness in vsnprintf

Ingo Oeser
2005-09-12T18:50:08Z

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On Monday 12 September 2005 19:54, Alexander Nyberg wrote:
> Gah, I'm such a fantastic programmer.
>
> I don't know what mc is up to but the error checking in read_page_owner
> is flawed wrt snprintf which could cause the 'size' argument to snprintf
> to become negative and if so overwrite beyond 'buf'.

To prevent this, clever people invented the seq_file-API.
Even more clever people tend to use it :-)

I personally love it!

Regards

Ingo Oeser

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