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From: Om <okuttan@netd.com>
To: Rock Gordon <rockgordon@yahoo.com>
Cc: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org,
	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
Subject: Re: userspace vs. kernelspace address
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:23:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050129042355.GA5527@netd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050128214051.34768.qmail@web41411.mail.yahoo.com>

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 01:40:51PM -0800, Rock Gordon wrote:
> Hi everbody,
> 
> Thanks for your replies.
> 
> However I think my copy_to_user and copy_from_user are
> failing since the kernel-mode thread is copying data
> into another process's address space, and I am not
> sure how to do this. Do the get_fs() and set_fs()
> combinations let you do that? If not, then how do I do
My idea is on kernel thread is limited. But I think it is not possible to
any userspace address from any kernel thread because they do not have access
to it. Their proc_struct->mm field is empty.
I am not sure whether set_fs and get_fs help in this case.

HTH,
Om

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-29  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050128075209.GA14153@vagabond>
2005-01-28 21:40 ` userspace vs. kernelspace address Rock Gordon
2005-01-29  4:23   ` Om [this message]
2005-01-30  8:41     ` Jan Hudec
2005-01-30 15:37   ` Bernd Petrovitsch

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