On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:06:14PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Andi, > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:51:53 +0100 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I don't think this will work for sparc64/s390/UML etc. > > They cannot access kernel data inside KERNEL_DS. You would need to use > > compat_alloc_user_space() for ru > > .. and, presumably, for info as well. Interestingly, this code > came directly from sparc64 ...
Sorry, I misread the code. In this case it's actually ok. The only thing that doesn't work is mixing the pointers (e.g. accessing user mode pointers inside KERNEL_DS) So the patch is fine. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
