Re: [PATCH] modpost: fix buffer overflow

From: Jiri Benc
Date: Thu Mar 16 2006 - 08:26:18 EST


On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:51:59 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Can I ask you to make a new patch where you change buf_printf() to use
> buf_write. And then change buf_write to allocate in chunks also.
> This would be cleanest solution.

This probably will be the cleanest solution, but I doubt it would be
acceptable for 2.6.16. And I think the fix should go into 2.6.16.

Thanks,

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Jiri Benc
SUSE Labs
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