Thank you for clarifying. 

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> On Sep 9, 2016, at 04:06, Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 04:00:56AM -0500, William J. Coldwell wrote:
>> Are these overflows a security issue?
>> Like giving up valid kernel memory.
> 
> No security issue. They just record the 64bit version of the msghdr
> structure (which has just been passed in from userland anyway) instead
> of the 32bit one, and the decoder in kdump can not handle that.
> 
> Martin

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