Re: [PATCH 4.4 11/41] KEYS: fix writing past end of user-supplied buffer in keyring_read()

[David Howells]

Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > So do we really make it keep filling the buffer, even though that contradicts
> > the man page?
> 
> I don't think any application is likely to care about this.  The
> documentation should also be changed to say that if the buffer is too
> small, "data may or may not be copied to the buffer" or "the contents
> of the buffer are undefined".

Okay, let's go with that.

David