From: "Durantez, Marc" <durantez@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Accessing an arbitrary user space from a module
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:11:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ultrasparc-92407426618643@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ultrasparc-92406432012725@msgid-missing>
> First case: I am not at interrupt time but I am in the context of
> another process like a deamon or whatever.
>
> copy_to_user(user_pointer, kernel_pointer, size);
Should I understand that copy_to_user and the other functions of uaccess.h allow
to access the memory of any user task? I thougth they accessed only the
'current' task's memory space... :-(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-04-14 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-14 2:44 Accessing an arbitrary user space from a module Durantez, Marc
1999-04-14 4:30 ` David Miller
1999-04-14 7:11 ` Durantez, Marc [this message]
1999-04-14 7:12 ` David Miller
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