Re: BUG kernel macro: copy_to_user


Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com)
Fri, 9 Apr 1999 10:24:33 -0700 (PWT)


> On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 09:52:30AM +0200, Andreas Krebs wrote:
> > ... so i take a look at the copy_to_user macro and notice, that some
> > registers are used direct. i think the strlen() command somehow messes
> > up this registers and causes the following __access_ok to fail.
> > so i changed the macro a bit, by moving the length calc to the top
>
> Good eyes. There are about five places in the same file with the
> same problem. I'll fix it all up.
>

This is an argument for why the CVS stuff is good- you'll make the fix,
and there'll a central place for folks to get stuff within a day rather
than knowing where patches are, when the next microrelease is, etc...
.

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