Re: Fwd: Any user can panic OpenBSD machine

From: Chris Wedgwood (chrisat_private)
Date: Mon Jul 27 1998 - 19:09:53 PDT

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On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 10:57:52AM +0900, Scott Stone wrote:

> it returns EINVAL on NetBSD - Linux's behavior could well be different.

I wasn't very clear.

Yes, EINVAL is returned by NetBSD - but this is a bug itself. The API uses
unsigned lengths, so -1 isn't a bogus value (well, perhaps it is actually,
if you consider the fact that buffer_start + 0xFFFFFFFFul) >= process space
end address, then EINVAL is legitimate).


-cw

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