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SubjectRe: [RESEND v4 2/6] remoteproc: debugfs: Add ability to boot remote processor using debugfs
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On Thursday 03 December 2015 17:28:30 Lee Jones wrote:
> >
> > Ah, interesting. I haven't tried myself, and just tried to read the
> > code. Maybe glibc already catches zero-length writes before it gets
> > into the kernel, or I just missed the part of the syscall that checks
> > for this.
>
> Glibc is responsible indeed:
>
> http://osxr.org/glibc/source/io/write.c

Ok, so an attacker can force the stack overflow by calling
syscall(__NR_write, fd, p, 0) if that has any potential value,
but normal users won't hit this case.

Arnd


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