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The logger meets linux-kernel

The logger meets linux-kernel

Posted Jan 6, 2012 14:45 UTC (Fri) by dps (subscriber, #5725)
Parent article: The logger meets linux-kernel

Am I missing something or does an evil application/bug that writes an entry that is sufficiently long get to write outside the buffer? I can't see any check in the write code that prevents this happening.

IMHO assumptions about the niceness and bug freeness of user space in the kernel are an unambiguously bad idea.


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