On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 20:38:59 +0100, Alexander Bluhm wrote:

> I think the best way to handle it, is to make the kernel strict and
> fix userland.  If the kernel would allow the sloppiest userland
> program to succeed, creating security would be hard.

Sorry, I don't agree.  We cannot expect userland to fill in a
non-standard length field.  The kernel ioctl handler should set
sa_len appropriately instead.

 - todd

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