This has already been fixed in Linus' tree. Here's hoping it gets into 2.4 sometime soon. Note in the patch that "node" is the userspace pointer and "nodename" is the string where "node" was strncpy_from_user()'d to. So it really should be using "nodename". Index: linux-2.4/arch/mips64/kernel/syscall.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.4/arch/mips64/kernel/syscall.c (revision 3226) +++ linux-2.4/arch/mips64/kernel/syscall.c (working copy) @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ return -EFAULT; down_write(&uts_sem); - strncpy(system_utsname.nodename, name, len); + strncpy(system_utsname.nodename, nodename, len); system_utsname.nodename[len] = '\0'; up_write(&uts_sem); return 0; Index: linux-2.4/arch/mips/kernel/sysmips.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.4/arch/mips/kernel/sysmips.c (revision 3226) +++ linux-2.4/arch/mips/kernel/sysmips.c (working copy) @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ return -EFAULT; down_write(&uts_sem); - strncpy(system_utsname.nodename, name, len); + strncpy(system_utsname.nodename, nodename, len); system_utsname.nodename[len] = '\0'; up_write(&uts_sem); return 0;
