From: "Balbir Singh" <balbir_soni@hotmail.com>
To: davem@redhat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] Suspected bug in getpeername and getsockname
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:27:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F96rPJjUsZ6G7KCk5sm0001ad67@hotmail.com> (raw)
What I was trying to state is that the protocol specific
code does not get to see the length passed from the user.
The protocol specific code would like to look at what
the user passed.
Balbir
>You totally missed what move_addr_to_user() does, which is in fact
>truncate the copied len to what the user supplied. Also, the comments
>in move_addr_to_user even quote the bits of 1003.1g you a referring
>to.
>
>In short, the bug you suggest is not there.
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next reply other threads:[~2002-01-17 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-17 16:27 Balbir Singh [this message]
2002-01-17 20:24 ` [BUG] Suspected bug in getpeername and getsockname kuznet
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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