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Date:      Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:52:09 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_usrreq.c
Message-ID:  <20080707195209.GD95574@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200807032326.m63NQCdW044654@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200807032326.m63NQCdW044654@repoman.freebsd.org>

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This really deserves a comment at each invocation of bcopy in
order to prevent regressions by someone "fixing" it again.

-Alfred

* Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> [080703 16:26] wrote:
> emaste      2008-07-03 23:26:10 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/kern             uipc_usrreq.c 
>   Log:
>   SVN rev 180238 on 2008-07-03 23:26:10Z by emaste
>   
>   Use bcopy instead of strlcpy in uipc_bind and unp_connect, since
>   soun->sun_path isn't a null-terminated string.  As UNIX(4) states, "the
>   terminating NUL is not part of the address."  Since strlcpy has to return
>   "the total length of the string [it] tried to create," it walks off the end
>   of soun->sun_path looking for a \0.
>   
>   This reverts r105332.
>   
>   Reported by:    Ryan Stone
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.215     +4 -2      src/sys/kern/uipc_usrreq.c

-- 
- Alfred Perlstein



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