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From: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 16:50:54 +0200
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH v3 7/9] Test for CVE-2017-5669 in shmat
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Hi!
> > Why do we try to write to the addres at all?
> >
> > We do PASS/FAIL decision based only on the addres returned from
> > shmat().
> 
> To see if anything interesting happens, like a segfault. I don't think
> anything is likely to happen, but it seemed worth leaving in at the
> time.

Maybe we should also add a TINFO message then, that we are about
dereference the address then.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz