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Message-ID: <20151007072851.GA8537@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 09:28:51 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> To: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] strscpy: zero any trailing garbage bytes in the destination * Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com> wrote: > It's possible that the destination can be shadowed in userspace > (as, for example, the perf buffers are now). So we should take > care not to leak data that could be inspected by userspace. > > Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com> > --- > Ingo, can you test this change in your Fedora+strlcpy boot test? > I think it's correct but the more testing the better, particularly > if we're about to add the support for strlcpy to use it. Yeah, booted it on a couple of systems and everything seems to be fine: Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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