Re: [oops] lib/vsprintf.c

[Pawel Sikora]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Pawe Sikora wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > vsprintf.c-      case 's':
> > vsprintf.c-                    s = va_arg(args, char *);
> > vsprintf.c-                    if ((unsigned long)s < PAGE_SIZE)
> > vsprintf.c-                           s = "<NULL>";
> > vsprintf.c-
> > vsprintf.c:      OOPS!  =>     len = strnlen(s, precision);
>
> But it is the kernel module that's buggy. What's the problem?

I think that block similar to setjmp/longjmp should be placed
around such dangerous places to refues future oops.
That's all.
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