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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Davi Arnaut <davi.arnaut@gmail.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, vsu@altlinux.ru, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] strndup_user (v3), convert (keyctl)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:38:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5378.1140431896@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4993.1140431092@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> > I think you should just tell Andrew to drop
> > keys-deal-properly-with-strnlen_user.patch
> > in favor of mine... :-)
> 
> No... you've taken out all the checks on lengths on NUL-terminated strings.

I take that back... strndup not strdup.

However, the check on the length of the type is wrong with your patch (and in
the unpatched kernel). Can you pull in that bit from my patch?

David

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-20 10:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-18 14:36 [PATCH 2/2] strndup_user (v3), convert (keyctl) Davi Arnaut
2006-02-18 16:44 ` David Howells
2006-02-18 19:11   ` Davi Arnaut
2006-02-20 10:24     ` David Howells
2006-02-20 10:38       ` David Howells [this message]
2006-02-20 20:09         ` Davi Arnaut
2006-03-01 14:06           ` David Howells
2006-03-01 15:16             ` Davi Arnaut
2006-03-01 20:50               ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-01 21:04                 ` Davi Arnaut
2006-03-01 22:06                 ` David Howells

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