Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 7 Mar 2006 23:28:41 -0500 | | From | Joe Korty <> | | Subject | Re: Fw: Re: oops in choose_configuration() |
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On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 04:57:39PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Well, snprintf() should be safe, though. It will warn if the caller is > lazy, but these days, the thing does > > max(buf_size - len, 0) > > which should mean that the input layer passes in 0 instead of a negative > number. And snprintf() will then _not_ print anything.
I assume this is a typo, and you meant scnprintf? AFAIK, snprintf has the same ol' bad behavior when #bytes-to-be-written > #bytes-in-buffer. Joe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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