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From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init/do_mounts.c: replace sys_mount() to do_mount()
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:25:20 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282051520.1635.7.camel@leonhard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008171515.26175.arnd@arndb.de>

2010-08-17 (화), 15:15 +0200, Arnd Bergmann:
> AFAICT there is no need for the copy at all here. The reason that sys_mount
> copies to a separate page is that it gets passed an arbitrary-length user
> input.
> 
> 	Arnd

Right. But make sure to user options never exceed a page, do_mount() has
following code:

	if (data_page)
		((char *)data_page)[PAGE_SIZE - 1] = 0;


-- 
Regards,
Namhyung Kim



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-17 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-17 12:37 [PATCH] init/do_mounts.c: replace sys_mount() to do_mount() Namhyung Kim
2010-08-17 13:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-17 13:25   ` Namhyung Kim [this message]
2010-08-17 13:41     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-17 14:38       ` [PATCH v2] init: " Namhyung Kim

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