Re: Patch for 4.4.y+ stable kernels: (tracing: Use strlcpy() instead of strcpy() in __trace_find_cmdline())

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On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 04:36:18PM +0530, Sumit Semwal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For all stable kernels since 4.4.y, please review
> 
> Upstream commit: e09e28671cda: tracing: Use strlcpy() instead of
> strcpy() in __trace_find_cmdline()
> 
> This fixes a potential hole due to use of strcpy in a tracing function.

{sigh}

No, it does not.  Please search the archives, we have been over this
many times already.

Also be sure to always cc: the developers and the maintainers of any
patch you ask to be submitted to the stable tree, that way they can
learn of the request, and possibly object to it, like Steven would have
done here...

greg k-h



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