Re: 2.6.13-mm3 [OOPS] vfs, page_owner, full reproductively, badness in vsnprintf
From: Ingo Oeser
Date: Mon Sep 12 2005 - 13:50:36 EST
On Monday 12 September 2005 19:54, Alexander Nyberg wrote:
> Gah, I'm such a fantastic programmer.
>
> I don't know what mc is up to but the error checking in read_page_owner
> is flawed wrt snprintf which could cause the 'size' argument to snprintf
> to become negative and if so overwrite beyond 'buf'.
To prevent this, clever people invented the seq_file-API.
Even more clever people tend to use it :-)
I personally love it!
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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