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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: rui.sousa@laposte.net (Rui Sousa),
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitor-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: AUDIT of 2.5.15 copy_to/from_user
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 19:02:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12975.1021831347@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E179VI7-0004AY-00@the-village.bc.nu>


alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said:
> > > After that we always use __copy_from_user() and we trust it not to fail. 
> > This is correct 

> The only check done in access_ok on x86 is the 0xC0000000->0xFFFFFFFF
> check with isnt affected by remappings. 

Right.... so trusting __copy_to_user() not to fail doesn't seem 
particularly correct.

--
dwmw2



  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-19 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-19  4:18 AUDIT of 2.5.15 copy_to/from_user Rusty Russell
2002-05-18 22:55 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-18 23:12   ` [BKPATCH] " Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-18 23:54   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-19  0:14     ` [BKPATCH] OSS: " Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-19  0:19     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-19  1:16       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-19  1:38         ` [BKPATCH] USB: " Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-20  6:07           ` Greg KH
2002-05-19  6:30       ` Kai Germaschewski
2002-05-19  0:45         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-19  1:07           ` [BKPATCH] ISDN: " Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-19 11:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-19 12:10   ` Stephen Rothwell
2002-05-19 12:15   ` Rui Sousa
2002-05-19 12:46     ` Alan Cox
2002-05-19 12:58       ` Rui Sousa
2002-05-19 13:43         ` Alan Cox
2002-05-19 17:01           ` Hugh Dickins
2002-05-19 17:36             ` Alan Cox
2002-05-19 17:52           ` David Woodhouse
2002-05-19 18:20             ` Alan Cox
2002-05-19 18:02               ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2002-05-19 22:54                 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-20  1:38   ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-20 11:47     ` Alan Cox
2002-05-19 12:13 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-07  8:54   ` David S. Miller
2002-05-19 12:48 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-19 17:28   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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