Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755967AbZKLX5D (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:57:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756032AbZKLX45 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:56:57 -0500 Received: from taverner.CS.Berkeley.EDU ([128.32.168.222]:42004 "EHLO taverner.cs.berkeley.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755955AbZKLX4u (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:56:50 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: daw@cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Newsgroups: isaac.lists.linux-kernel Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] security/selinux: decrement sizeof size in strncmp Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:56:53 +0000 (UTC) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: References: <4AFC3620.2020809@schaufler-ca.com> Reply-To: daw-news@cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) NNTP-Posting-Host: taverner.cs.berkeley.edu X-Trace: taverner.cs.berkeley.edu 1258070213 13203 128.32.168.222 (12 Nov 2009 23:56:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:56:53 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Originator: daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 568 Lines: 7 Julia Lawall wrote: > Is it possible for the 0 at the end of an explicit constant string > to get overwritten? I don't see any way it could in this case. If there were some other bug that allowed overwriting the explicit constant string, we'd want to fix that other bug, but I don't see anything like that in this case. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/