Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> added the comment:

> The Python code does not create buffer overflow, it's just that the Linux 
> kernel will always reject names which are too long.

The Kernel doesn't have a direct length restriction. It just ensures that type 
and name are NULL terminated. Other code inside the Kernel rejects unknown type 
and name values.

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