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The problem is that we were putting the NUL terminator too far: buf[sizeof(buf) - 1] = '\0'; If the user input isn't NUL terminated and they haven't initialized the whole buffer then it leads to an info leak. The NUL terminator should be: buf[len - 1] = '\0'; Signed-off-by: Yihui Zeng <yzeng56@asu.edu> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> [heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: keep semantics of how *lenp and *ppos are handled] Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.