On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 01:59:53PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
>
> Are you sure sed and awk are good for kernel?
> Above string parsing eventually will end up in tricky bugs.
> What about following:
>
> tfm = crypto_tfm_alloc("deflate", flags);
> err = tfm->setup(&user_provided_deflate_parameters);
>
> int deflate_setup(void *data)
> {
> struct deflate_setup *s = data;
>
> ... setup compression parameters from user's structure ...
>
> return 0;
> }
Passing void * pointers like this is going to cause even more bugs,
especially if you do it from user space to kernel space.
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