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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [TRIVIAL] kstrdup
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:38:03 EST, Jeff Garzik said:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:28:14PM -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, who's job is it to avoid the race condition between when
> > this function takes the strlen() and the other processor makes it a longer
> > string before we return from kmalloc() and do the strcpy()?
>
> The caller's.

That's cool, long as everybody agrees on that - I've already filled my career
quota of chasing down bugs due to non-threadsafe use of str*() functions. ;)

All the same, I'd probably feel better if it used strncpy() instead - there'd
still be the possibility of copying now-stale data, but at least you'd not be
able to walk off the end of the *new* array's allocated space....

/Valdis

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