From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
To: Margit Schubert-While <margitsw@t-online.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.20 copy_from/to_user
Date: 17 Dec 2002 12:52:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1040129576.1768.14.camel@lemsip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20021217112614.00b55eb0@pop.t-online.de>
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On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 10:42, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> Maybe talking through the top of my hat , however -
> copy_from_user and copy_to_user are used all over the place and the
> return tested to see if an EFAULT should be generated.
> Looking at include/asm-i386/uaccess.h and arch/i386/lib/usercopy.c
> I don't see how these return anything but the 3rd (length) param.
Kernel glibly copies data until a exception occurs, when that happens it
looks at the address of the faulting instruction and jumps to some fixup
code, which somehow makes the function returns the truncated value.
grep for ".section .fixup" and ".section .__ex_table." in those files.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-17 10:42 2.4.20 copy_from/to_user Margit Schubert-While
2002-12-17 12:52 ` Gianni Tedesco [this message]
2002-12-17 13:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
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