Re: copy_from_user/copy_to_user question

Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-03T08:33:27Z

> The piece of code that I am talking about is part of a
> driver code. Unfortunately I am not at liberty to
> divulge the name of the company. So in the driver then
> are not using copy_to_user and copy_from_user. That is
> what puzzles me. Moreover, where they are using these
> functions they use memcpy which is a big security
> risk.

I guess this is why you're not allowed to mention it... they'd be all
over bugtraq..

thank god for open source so that 1) customers can see the quality and
2) everyone can fix it....