Let me know if I can go ahead and fix both the uaccess stub and strcpy code.


On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 3:45 PM, Davide Libenzi <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Davide Libenzi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> More importantly, what happens if the user picks an address close to the
>>> border of the an area where it does not have access, but the string goes
>>> into that area.  For instance, in copy_to_user, I think the user could
>>> pick UWLIM - 1, then trick the kernel into writing above that into
>>> memory that is read-only.
>>>
>>
>> The code assume that there is one (at least) separation page between user
>> and kernel VMAs.
>> Should have made it more clear.
>>
>
> Never mind, sorry, that needs fixing.
>
>

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