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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix buffer overflow in xenconsoled

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Fix buffer overflow in xenconsoled
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:57:16 -0500
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Appears to be a typo.

Christian's watch changes threw me off a bit as I had been pursuing another route to fix the same problems. This bug is still valid though.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori
# HG changeset patch
# User Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Node ID 444e4fa43bf1123873cddecff51d9fe593271eae
# Parent  fe6c5ecea53aabedc6b53988da25910e108eafe9
Fix overflow in reading from console

diff -r fe6c5ecea53a -r 444e4fa43bf1 tools/console/daemon/io.c
--- a/tools/console/daemon/io.c Tue Aug 30 22:01:01 2005
+++ b/tools/console/daemon/io.c Tue Aug 30 22:05:28 2005
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@
                (struct ring_head *)(dom->page + PAGE_SIZE/2);
        int i;
 
-       len = read(dom->tty_fd, msg, MAX(XENCONS_SPACE(inring), sizeof(msg)));
+       len = read(dom->tty_fd, msg, MIN(XENCONS_SPACE(inring), sizeof(msg)));
        if (len < 1) {
                close(dom->tty_fd);
                dom->tty_fd = -1;
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