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Date:   Wed, 01 Nov 2017 15:24:17 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 11/41] KEYS: fix writing past end of user-supplied buffer in keyring_read()

Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.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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