Re: [PATCH] pktgen: Remove a dangerous debug print.

[Ben Greear]

On 10/27/2010 12:13 PM, Nelson Elhage wrote:
> We were allocating an arbitrarily-large buffer on the stack, which would allow a
> buggy or malicious userspace program to overflow the kernel stack.
>
> Since the debug printk() was just printing exactly the text passed from
> userspace, it's probably just as easy for anyone who might use it to augment (or
> just strace(1)) the program writing to the pktgen file, so let's just not bother
> trying to print the whole buffer.

Maybe just allocate that buffer on the heap instead of stack?

Thanks,
Ben

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