Hi,

	While attempting for some testing with sethostname() call, I got
this problem . As explained in the man page the sethostname call is
failing(ret val = -1 & errno = EFAULT(14)) for invalid address and valid
length. But the problem is after running the following test, hostname is
getting reset to NULL. I tested in both 2.4 & 2.5 kernels.

Any comments on this?? 

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>

main()
{
int ret, errno;
unsigned short int len;
char host[50]="tmphost"; /* hostname max size is 64 */
errno = 0;
len = sizeof(host); 

/* valid length and invalid address, expected err is EFAULT */
ret = sethostname((void *)-1, len);
printf("return val : %d, err no: %d \n",ret,errno);

} 
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        I saw the code of sys_sethostname() function (sys.c) , in which
copy_from_user() is being called. I would like to know is it required to
validate the name argument before calling copy_from_user() to avoid such
problems.

        We could expect similar problem in setdomainname() also in which
same sort of code is used. 



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Thanks,
Suresh.