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From: David Miller <davem@twiddle.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 07:12:58 +0000
Subject: Re: Accessing an arbitrary user space from a module
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   Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:11:42 +0900
   From: "Durantez, Marc" <durantez@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>

   I thougth they accessed only the 'current' task's memory
   space... :-(

Right, only the current task.

See the arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c code for a possible way to touch
the data of other tasks.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com