Re: linux bugs (survival stories)?

[Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:26:34PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> If anybody wants a good kernel-auditing project, just start going through the
> 2.6.12-rc2 tree and look at uses of copy_from_user(), and make sure that each
> use of that function then proceeds to *validate* the data (especially in the
> various driver's .ioctl methods - historically a place for issues).   At least

like this in 2.6.11:

grep -rniI 'fuck' * | grep -iv 'fuck billg' |  grep -iv 'fuck bill g' | grep
'junk'
sound/oss/opl3.c:837:    * What the fuck is going on here?  We leave junk in
the beginning

(the key to success being grepping for 'bill')

-- 
where do you want bill gates to go today?

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