From: kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
To: balbir_soni@hotmail.COM (Balbir Singh)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Suspected bug in getpeername and getsockname
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:24:27 +0300 (MSK) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200201172024.XAA04744@ms2.inr.ac.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F96rPJjUsZ6G7KCk5sm0001ad67@hotmail.com> from "Balbir Singh" at Jan 17, 2 07:45:00 pm
Hello!
> The protocol specific code would like to look at what
> the user passed.
For what purpose?
Protocol has no rights to use this length, because user has right
to pass buffer of any length and address will be simply truncated.
And the truncation is made by net/socket.c, so that protocols need
not worry about this.
Alexey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-17 20:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-17 16:27 [BUG] Suspected bug in getpeername and getsockname Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 20:24 ` kuznet [this message]
2002-01-17 21:11 ` David S. Miller
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2002-01-18 0:05 Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 23:35 Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 23:38 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-17 23:20 Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 23:26 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-17 22:11 Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 22:30 ` David S. Miller
2002-01-16 0:51 Balbir Singh
2002-01-17 0:54 ` David S. Miller
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