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From: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com>
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Hi,
I'm developing a kernel module that needs to parse the in-memory ELF 
objects for a shared library (libc, to be specific).  When running my 
test on a 32-bit library, it works fine, but for a 64-bit library, the 
very first copy_from_user() fails:
    Elf64_Ehdr ehdr;
    copy_from_user(&ehdr, location_of_lib, sizeof(Elf64_Ehdr);

I talked this over a bit with Will Schmidt.  He determined that 
access_ok (being done as a result of copy_from_user) was failing, but we 
don't know why.  I have 32-bit and 64-bit testcases that start up and 
then pause, waiting for input.  We look at the entry for libc in 
/proc/<pid>/maps, and the permissions are the same for both 32-bit and 
64-bit.

I've run this test on both a stock SLES 10 SP1 kernel and on 2.6.24. 
I'm sure this is a user error, but for the life of me, I don't know what 
I'm doing wrong.

Can anyone out there help?

Thanks.
Maynard Johnson
LTC POWER Toolchain