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On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 09:27:18PM +0100, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> El 29/03/14 05:13, Samuli Suominen escribió: |
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> > I took the liberty to unbreak the tree for you. Don't ever touch my |
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> > packages again unless |
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> > they are broken. |
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> Udev is broken: |
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> * They have known off by one string handling errors on their libraries, |
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> the developers were warned of that but have chosen to ignore the issue. |
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> The issue is still on |
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> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/shared/strxcpyx.c |
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> on the function size_t strpcpyf(char **dest, size_t size, const char |
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> *src, ...) which can overflow the string boundaries in some case. This |
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> issue keeps coming up from time to time thanks to their "nice" efforts |
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> for cahnging the whole thing instead of fixing bugs. Also after a year |
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> nothing has been done. |
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I must have missed it, where was this reported? |
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And where is the off-by-one issue here? What am I missing in the code? |
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> * They keep losing cohesion |
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> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesion_%28computer_science%29) by |
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> inserting more and more unrelated software into Udev/systemd. This helps |
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> things like the above happen again. |
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That has nothing to do with a logic bug. |
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> * They have the bad habit of recoding functions that are already |
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> provided by their only supported c library. This helps things like the |
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> above happen.ç |
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Where are these functions in glibc that should have been used instead? |
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greg k-h |
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