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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: joshk@triplehelix.org (Joshua Kwan)
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6] busybox EFAULT on sparc64
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:06:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040818170600.035e2345.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040818235528.GA8070@triplehelix.org>

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:55:28 -0700
joshk@triplehelix.org (Joshua Kwan) wrote:

> I'm inclined to believe that the two bugs are related; these both happen
> with busybox-cvs and the exact same programs work with 2.4. Bastian
> Blank suggests that it is the compat wrapper for sys_mount that is not
> clean.

I think this analysis is faulty, all of the userspace accesses done
by the compat layer for sys_mount() are done exactly using the same
code the normal sys_mount() uses, namely copy_mount_options().

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-19  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-18 23:55 [2.6] busybox EFAULT on sparc64 Joshua Kwan
2004-08-19  0:04 ` Joshua Kwan
2004-08-19  0:06 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-08-19  0:07 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-19  1:43 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-19  9:09   ` Joshua Kwan
2004-08-19 16:52 ` David S. Miller
2004-08-20  5:02   ` David S. Miller

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