From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 00:01:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 00:01:27 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:9347 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 00:01:24 -0400 From: "David S. Miller" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15152.8210.77166.139923@pizda.ninka.net> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:01:22 -0700 (PDT) To: "Zack Weinberg" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tridge@samba.org Subject: Re: 2.2 PATCH: check return from copy_*_user in fs/pipe.c In-Reply-To: <20010619205924.H5679@stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <15152.4073.812901.656882@pizda.ninka.net> <20010619205924.H5679@stanford.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 13) "Crater Lake" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Zack Weinberg writes: > I don't think it's a security hole, if that's what you mean. Right, because the kernel clears the post-fault bytes in the kernel buffer. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com