From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Dawson Engler <engler@csl.Stanford.EDU>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] 9 potential copy_*_user bugs in 2.4.1
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:06:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1886.984737208@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200103160224.SAA03920@csl.Stanford.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <200103160224.SAA03920@csl.Stanford.EDU>
engler@csl.Stanford.EDU said:
> I wrote an extension to gcc that does global analysis to determine
> which pointers in 2.4.1 are ever treated as user space pointers (i.e,
> passed to copy_*_user, verify_area, etc) and then makes sure they are
> always treated that way.
Nice work - thanks. One request though, to you and anyone else doing such
cleanups - please could you list the affected files separately near the
beginning of your mail, so that people can tell at a glance whether there's
anything in there that might be their fault.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-16 10:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-16 2:24 [CHECKER] 9 potential copy_*_user bugs in 2.4.1 Dawson Engler
2001-03-16 3:11 ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-16 7:36 ` Dawson Engler
2001-03-16 13:05 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-03-16 5:54 ` Greg KH
2001-03-16 7:07 ` David S. Miller
2001-03-16 10:06 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-03-16 19:26 ` Russell King
2001-03-16 20:56 ` Locking question (was: [CHECKER] 9 potential copy_*_user bugs in 2.4.1) Nigel Gamble
2001-03-20 8:42 ` [CHECKER] 9 potential copy_*_user bugs in 2.4.1 Rusty Russell
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