Re: [oops] lib/vsprintf.c

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 08:35 +0100, Pawel Sikora wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Pawe Sikora wrote:
> >> 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.

How do you want to find such bugs then?

	Bernd
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