Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] sysctl: clean up char buffer arguments

[Kees Cook]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> BTW if you're worried about sysctl races you may also want to resurrect
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/20/214

Yeah, this had bothered me too while reading the code. The only "good"
news is that the strings are always NULL terminated and only "old"
contents can ever leak. Still, it's kind of horrible that there is no
locking here. :)

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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