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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Perform check in iov_iter_fault_in_readable() by check_readable_bytes()
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:01:37 +0200
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> It would be quite nice if it were safe to call read(), get EFAULT

Even with that patch it is not safe, not even for write, because
it's racy.

-Andi
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