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Message-ID: <20170629214826.GG1627@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:48:26 -0400
From: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] fix OOB reads in Xbyte_memmem

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 12:35:33AM +0300, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> Reported by Leah Neukirchen.
> ---
> Presumably the loops were written that way to get good performance even in

I think they were just written as the simplest possible
"looks-correct" adaptation of the strstr versions of the code. If
they're good it's probably just by luck.

Rich

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