From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
To: "Ryan W. Maple" <ryan@guardiandigital.com>
Cc: Justin Guyett <justin@soze.net>, james bond <difda@hotmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BIG PROBLEM
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 23:46:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010628234659.A8105@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106281413080.23200-100000@gw.soze.net> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10106281734140.11669-100000@mastermind.inside.guardiandigital.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10106281734140.11669-100000@mastermind.inside.guardiandigital.com>; from ryan@guardiandigital.com on Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:35:14PM -0400
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 05:35:14PM -0400, Ryan W. Maple wrote:
> Check out: http://bugs.debian.org/85478
>
> "When klogd's LogLine() function encounters a null byte in state
> PARSING_TEXT, it will loop infinitely. More precisely, copyin()
> will treat the null byte as a delimiter - unlike LogLine(), which
> will invoke copyin() ever and ever again."
>
> Kinda off-topic, but I just wanted to prove that the bug was in klogd and
> not the kernel. :)
The kernel definately shouldn't communicate with the user using NUL chars.
Ralf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-28 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-28 18:49 james bond
2001-06-28 19:07 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-28 19:33 ` Ryan W. Maple
2001-06-28 20:59 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-06-28 21:17 ` Justin Guyett
2001-06-28 21:35 ` Ryan W. Maple
2001-06-28 21:46 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
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