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From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>,
	security@kernel.org
Subject: Re: can-bcm: fix minor heap overflow
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:43:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289529838.3090.209.camel@Dan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101112023950.GA8145@verge.net.au>


> 
> If the string may be up to 17 bytes long why are you allocating 20?
> 

In Oliver's defense, this doesn't matter even a little bit.  The
structure will be allocated with kmalloc-1024 either way.

-Dan


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-12  2:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-10 22:10 can-bcm: fix minor heap overflow Oliver Hartkopp
2010-11-12  2:39 ` Simon Horman
2010-11-12  2:43   ` Dan Rosenberg [this message]
2010-11-12  2:48     ` Simon Horman
2010-11-12 22:07 ` David Miller

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