Re: [PATCH] uml: handle unusual results from find_tempdir.

[Jeff Dike]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:25:06PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> 
> An alternative: make find_tempdir set tempdir to default_tempdir
> upon malloc failure.
> 
> * arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c (make_tempfile): Handle NULL tempdir.
> Don't let a long tempdir (e.g., via TMPDIR) provoke heap corruption.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, I'll forward this on.

			Jeff

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