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From: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
To: hemanth nandish <hemanthluvsfifa@gmail.com>
Cc: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Invoke binary from kernel space
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:58:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35993.1587675528@turing-police> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEBxVXMoDCyY3nbU0uEWSD2TivgujAYPQhWcLF=BbhrK0y6n=Q@mail.gmail.com>


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On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 01:23:45 +0530, hemanth nandish said:

> This function works as expected and a new thread is spawned.
> Now when I try to directly call do_execve within my module by passing the
> required arguments, I am getting  -EFAULT error.
> This is happening in this function:
>
> count(argv, MAX_ARG_STRINGS)
>
> What am I missing here?

My first guess is "the NULL pointer that indicates the end of the argv list".

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-23 19:53 Invoke binary from kernel space hemanth nandish
2020-04-23 20:58 ` Valdis Klētnieks [this message]

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