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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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        Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] sysctl: fix incorrect write position handling
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 10:17:58 -0700
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This creates a series of tests designed to examine the behavior of sysctl
write behavior, and corrects some unexpected side-effects of the current
file offset handling when writing sysctls. Namely, short appends don't
work and multiple writes (with incremented file position) rewrite the
sysctl string contents.

-Kees