FreeBSD Kernel buffer overflow

gerarra at tin.it gerarra at tin.it
Thu Sep 16 18:37:36 PDT 2004


>
>If we put your patch in but as a KASSERT then anyone ruinning with 
>debugging turned on
>(and no-one in their right mind would write a kernel module without 
>turning on debugging, right?)
>will immediatly find the problem.
>

What you can't understand is that having a limit about arguments is wrong
(it's not documented too). Why limiting to 8 and not to 20? or 65? i don't
understand...
In my opinion a patch would be better (and even quicker respect KASSERT).

rookie




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