linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] uml: handle unusual results from find

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Message-ID: <20080205170234.GB9694@c2.user-mode-linux.org>
Date:	Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:02:34 -0500
From:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
To:	Jim Meyering <jim@...ering.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uml: handle unusual results from find_tempdir.

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:25:06PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> 
> An alternative: make find_tempdir set tempdir to default_tempdir
> upon malloc failure.
> 
> * arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c (make_tempfile): Handle NULL tempdir.
> Don't let a long tempdir (e.g., via TMPDIR) provoke heap corruption.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@...hat.com>

Thanks, I'll forward this on.

			Jeff

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