Re: [patch 03/26] sysfs: zero terminate sysfs write buffers (CVE-2006-1055)

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Apr 05 2006 - 11:46:45 EST


On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:43:15AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > How about _NOT_ using sysfs and just having ->read()/->write() on a file in fs
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > of your own? ~20 lines for all of it, not counting #include...
>
> Sysfs attributes allow full read/write on their file handles. But
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> GregKH has been discouraging that.
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