Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Apr 2006 12:18:07 -0400 | From | "Jon Smirl" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 03/26] sysfs: zero terminate sysfs write buffers (CVE-2006-1055) |
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On 4/5/06, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:43:15AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > How about _NOT_ using sysfs and just having ->read()/->write() on a file in fs > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Where does this file come from? A device node?
> > > of your own? ~20 lines for all of it, not counting #include... > > > > Sysfs attributes allow full read/write on their file handles. But > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > GregKH has been discouraging that. >
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