From: Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] security rules? (and 2.4.5-ac4 security bug)
Date: 08 Jun 2001 13:24:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tgwv6n43kt.fsf@mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E156VyD-0004D9-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E156VyD-0004D9-00@the-village.bc.nu> (Alan Cox's message of "Sun, 3 Jun 2001 12:22:57 +0100 (BST)")
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> n /u2/engler/mc/oses/linux/2.4.5-ac4/drivers/char/random.c:1813:uuid_strategy: ERROR:RANGE:1809:1813: Using user length "len" as argument to "copy_to_user" [type=LOCAL] set by 'get_user':1813
>
> Sigh I thought I had all of the sysctl ones
BTW uuid_strategy() is broken in the RANDOM_UUID case. It calls
copy_to_user() on table->data, which is always NULL.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-08 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-03 8:07 [CHECKER] security rules? (and 2.4.5-ac4 security bug) Dawson Engler
2001-06-03 11:22 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-08 11:24 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-06-04 12:20 Hank Leininger
2001-06-09 18:07 ` Theodore Tso
2001-06-10 2:13 ` Dawson Engler
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