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From: Thiago Rondon <thiago.rondon@gmail.com>
To: opacki@acn.waw.pl
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LKM programming - problem with chars from user space (?)
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 02:35:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5845af7d040808233536cd5cf4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408082306.15656.opacki@acn.waw.pl>

Yeah, because you put KERN_ALERT as the first argument in the 
printk() function..

See this file, ~linux/include/linux/kernel.h

-Thiago Rondon

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004 23:06:15 +0200, authn <opacki@acn.waw.pl> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am coding a linux kernel module and have problem with some string from user
> space (from execve system call). There is no problem with useing this string
> as a one, for example printk(KERN_ALERT "%s", string) works fine.
> Problem appears when i want to printk or compare single char, in first case it
> is printked with some extra '<1>' and in second case, when i compare it with
> other one, it doesnt fit to real char (it is "connected" with '<1>' in some
> way ?). I tried to copy it to kmalloced buffer:
> 
> if ((k_space=(char *)kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL))==NULL)
>                         return -1;
> memcpy_fromfs((void *)k_space, (void *)argv[argc], len);
> 
> but then playing with k_space[i] was the same. Can anybody help me with this ?
> 
> Regards,
> apacz
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-09  6:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-08 21:06 LKM programming - problem with chars from user space (?) authn
2004-08-09  6:35 ` Thiago Rondon [this message]
2004-08-15 21:03   ` Jan Opacki

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