Messages in this thread | | | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.13-mm3 [OOPS] vfs, page_owner, full reproductively, badness in vsnprintf | Date | Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:48:42 +0200 |
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On Monday 12 September 2005 19:54, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > Gah, I'm such a fantastic programmer. > > I don't know what mc is up to but the error checking in read_page_owner > is flawed wrt snprintf which could cause the 'size' argument to snprintf > to become negative and if so overwrite beyond 'buf'.
To prevent this, clever people invented the seq_file-API. Even more clever people tend to use it :-)
I personally love it!
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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