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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6]: IPv6: strcpy -> strlcpy
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:09:53PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@?(B wrote:
> In article <1069934643.2393.0.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> (at Thu, 27 Nov 2003 13:04:04 +0100), Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org> says:
>
> > On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 11:59, David S. Miller wrote:
> >
> > > I agree, using sizeof() is the less error prone way of
> > > doing things like this.
> > >
> > > Felipe could you please rewrite your patch like this?
> >
> > Done!
>
> Thanks. Ok to me.

I'm slightly cautious here, although I haven't read the patch yet.
Did anyone consider whether any of these structures were copied to
user space, and whether, as a result of this change, we're now
copying uninitialised data to users?

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