Second opinion on bug 323
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Fri Oct 14 00:43:46 UTC 2005
This is a kernel bug in uClinux, not our problem, right?
http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=323
We pass them a valid, properly terminated string pointer to the kernel. The
kernel bindly memcpy's 4k of data from that point (instead of doing a
strncpy), and depending where the pointer is in memory this may result in the
copy going off the end of memory.
But that's not _our_ bug. We trigger it, but our behavior is valid. That
uClinux kernel with this bug in it needs to be fixed.
Anybody have a different interpretation?
Rob
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