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The first change: > make prepend_name() work correctly when called with negative *buflen Reminds me a lot of a different article in this week's LWN: http://lw
by krakensden 13y ago
The first change:
> make prepend_name() work correctly when called with negative *buflen
Reminds me a lot of a different article in this week's LWN:
http://lwn.net/Articles/591959/ http://lwn.net/Articles/591959/
which I would describe as exceedingly disconcerting. An excerpt:
> So areas like huge pages, page migration, and the mbind() system call have been fertile ground. In the case of mbind(), it turned out that all callers were going through a user-space library. That library did argument checking, so, naturally, the system call itself did not.