Re: More netbsd32 emulation ktrace overrides

["William J. Coldwell" <billc%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Thank you for clarifying. 

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On Sep 9, 2016, at 04:06, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> 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