Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/build-id: Fix xen_build_id_check() to be robust against malformed notes

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 31.12.18 at 18:34, <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A NT_GNU_BUILD_ID with namesz longer than 4 will cause the strncmp() to use
> bytes in adjacent stringtable entries.
> 
> Instead, check for namesz exactly equal to 4,

Is that a requirement spelled out anywhere? Till now I've been
under the impression that e.g. 8 bytes of name are fine as well,
as long as the first four of them are "GNU\0".

Jan



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