From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: getdents* bug
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:54:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l4bwdz9.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
The kernel only accepts buffer size values up to INT_MAX. I agree that
size_t is the correct type for the buffer size, but it means that
userspace needs to clamp large values to INT_MAX.
Thanks,
Florian
next reply other threads:[~2019-06-27 9:54 UTC|newest]
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2019-06-27 9:54 Florian Weimer [this message]
2019-06-27 12:49 ` Rich Felker
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