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Fix an out-of-bounds write when a zero-length buffer is passed.
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Authored by brooks on Apr 12 2017, 10:57 PM.
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Found with ttyname_test and CHERI bounds checking.

Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL
Obtained from: CheriBSD

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I also wonder if we should perform a NULL pointer check, but POSIX doesn't explicitly allow EINVAL.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 12 2017, 11:10 PM

I also wonder if we should perform a NULL pointer check, but POSIX doesn't explicitly allow EINVAL.

Bruce would argue that a SIGSEGV is a valid NULL pointer check. That is the failure case for many other APIs in userland (e.g. strlen() and strcpy()).

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