Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Oct 2013 22:55:59 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] (Was: perf_event_mmap(vma) && !vma->vm_mm) |
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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:43:48PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Yes, we can copy the garbage to the userspace. So what? This should not > matter at all. Exactly because userspace should never used the data after > the end of string, no?
Security people tell me to _never_ leak anything. I'm not near creative enough to exploit such a thing; but I am amazed at the techniques I do read about at times. So its really a better safe than sorry thing.
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