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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix msr check in compat_sys_swapcontext
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:36:37 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18706.51381.987014.370948@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jey6zx9piz.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

Andreas Schwab writes:

> Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes:
> 
> > we need to use get_user, not __get_user, since we haven't done an
> > access_ok() check on the address.
> 
> The address is always ok since its a compat pointer, see do_setcontext.

OK, since it's inside a CONFIG_PPC64 block.  I'll add a paragraph to
the patch description pointing that out.

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-06 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-05 12:30 [PATCH] Fix msr check in compat_sys_swapcontext Andreas Schwab
2008-11-06  0:52 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-11-06  9:23   ` Andreas Schwab
2008-11-06 10:36     ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2008-11-06 10:49       ` Andreas Schwab

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