From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Bron Gondwana <brong@fastmail.fm>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Rob Mueller <robm@fastmail.fm>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: BUG: mmapfile/writev spurious zero bytes (x86_64/not i386, bisected, reproducable)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:36:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080617213618.GL28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0806171421100.2907@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:24:39PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The whole *and*only* reason for copy_to/from_user() existing AT ALL is
> exactly the fact that the source or destination access can fault.
Erm... The reason for copy_to_user() existing is that dereferencing
a user-supplied address in the kernel does not have to access any
memory reachable in user mode, regardless of any faults. WTF are you
guys talking about?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-17 21:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-17 6:00 BUG: mmapfile/writev spurious zero bytes (x86_64/not i386, bisected, reproducable) Bron Gondwana
2008-06-17 6:02 ` Bron Gondwana
2008-06-17 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 17:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 20:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 20:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 21:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 21:16 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-17 21:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 21:30 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-17 21:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 21:36 ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-06-17 21:42 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-17 21:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 22:11 ` Al Viro
2008-06-17 22:21 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-18 6:22 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-17 21:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 2:27 ` Bron Gondwana
2008-06-18 3:14 ` Bron Gondwana
2008-06-18 4:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 5:11 ` Cyrus mmap vs lseek/write usage - (WAS: BUG: mmapfile/writev spurious zero bytes (x86_64/not i386, bisected, reproducable)) Bron Gondwana
2008-06-18 16:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 23:45 ` Robert Mueller
2008-06-19 0:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-03 11:44 ` BUG: mmapfile/writev spurious zero bytes still in the wild Bron Gondwana
2008-10-03 13:07 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-04 0:13 ` Bron Gondwana
2008-06-17 21:15 ` BUG: mmapfile/writev spurious zero bytes (x86_64/not i386, bisected, reproducable) Andi Kleen
2008-06-17 20:58 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-17 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 21:26 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-17 21:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 21:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-17 21:34 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-17 21:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-18 6:10 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-18 2:21 ` Bron Gondwana
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