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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:43:48PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Yes, we can copy the garbage to the userspace. So what? This should not
> matter at all. Exactly because userspace should never used the data after
> the end of string, no?

Security people tell me to _never_ leak anything. I'm not near creative
enough to exploit such a thing; but I am amazed at the techniques I do
read about at times. So its really a better safe than sorry thing.