Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4.4 11/41] KEYS: fix writing past end of user-supplied buffer in keyring_read() | Date | Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:24:17 +0000 |
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Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk> wrote:
> > So do we really make it keep filling the buffer, even though that contradicts > > the man page? > > I don't think any application is likely to care about this. The > documentation should also be changed to say that if the buffer is too > small, "data may or may not be copied to the buffer" or "the contents > of the buffer are undefined".
Okay, let's go with that.
David
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