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SubjectRe: [RESEND v4 2/6] remoteproc: debugfs: Add ability to boot remote processor using debugfs
On Thu, 03 Dec 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> 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.

Right. I have fixed the issue (and another one I found) anyway, if
only to rid the GCC warning.

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