Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2001 19:48:27 -0700 | | From | "Zack Weinberg" <> | | Subject | Re: 2.2 PATCH: check return from copy_*_user in fs/pipe.c |
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 07:16:23PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > Zack Weinberg writes: > > The anonymous pipe code in 2.2 does not check the return value of > > copy_*_user. This can lead to silent loss of data. > > I remember Andrew Tridgell (cc:'d) spotting this a long time > ago, and we didn't fix it, and I forget what the reason was.
It *has* been fixed in 2.4, though. Some sort of compatibility issue?
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