From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: David San?n Baena <davidsanan@teleline.es>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to access user space memory from kernel.
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 17:59:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021111225942.GB522@phunnypharm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00df01c289d3$52969420$6e9afea9@anabel>
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:40:19PM +0100, David San?n Baena wrote:
> Hi. I need to access to user space memory from a kernel module. This module
> is not a driver, so I would like how can i write and read from/to a variable
> in a user application from my kernel module?
> At first I thought I could do that with shared memory (shmget, shmat...),
> but in that is not possible in a kernel module. So I have thought to do it
> with copy_from_user and copy_to_user, but i don't know how to do it exactly,
> basically how to know where to write or read in the user var...
> Any suggestion???
> Thanks in advance
The user space application will have to make a call to the driver
somehow. Usually this is in the way of an ioctl() on a device that the
driver has made available to use space. The arguments passed across the
ioctl are known to your kernel module and userspace app. You could pass
a pointer to the kernel module which would be userspace memory that the
driver could copy_to_user some data to.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-11 22:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-11 22:40 how to access user space memory from kernel David Sanán Baena
2002-11-11 22:59 ` Ben Collins [this message]
2002-11-12 1:46 ` Livio Baldini Soares
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