Re: [PATCH 10/17] delta: Fix buffer overrun in delta_ipc_open

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Apr 01 2019 - 12:54:27 EST


On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 01:37:56PM +0000, Hugues FRUCHET wrote:
> Hi Andi,
>
> We have already discussed about that here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/866406/
>
> Now that strscpy is largely deployed within kernel, could you retest
> with the change I suggested ?

strscpy is not the correct fix because it leaks uninitialized memory
to the receiver. You need the memset.

-Andi