Re: Off-by-one bug at unix_mkname ?

[YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503281124450.18443@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (at Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:25:39 +0200 (MEST)), Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> says:

> 
> On Mar 28 2005 17:39, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote:
> 
> >+		 *	This may look like an off by one error but it is
> >+		 *	a bit more subtle. 108 is the longest valid AF_UNIX
> >+		 *	path for a binding. sun_path[108] doesnt as such
> >+		 *	exist. However in kernel space we are guaranteed that
> >+		 *	it is a valid memory location in our kernel
> >+		 *	address buffer.
> >+		 */
> 
> Now, does 2.6. _still_ guarantee that 108 is a valid offset?

Yes, it does.

--yoshfuji
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