adsl/pppoe no longer connecting on 5.1

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Jun 11 23:35:38 PDT 2003


On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 11:05:57PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> It looks like gcc's inline alloca implementation allocates chunks in
> larger chunks than the alloca.S implementation does.  This (untested)
> patch should make the alloca.S behaviour match that of gcc.

I suspect that there's a buffer overrun in one of the alloca() buffers
in ppp, that is harmless with gcc's inline version because of the
extra padding.  I haven't spotted it yet though.

Kris
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