From: Edgar Toernig <froese@gmx.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: AUDIT: copy_from_user is a deathtrap.
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 22:23:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CE809C0.59C4CBD5@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205180910570.26742-100000@home.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On 18 May 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > Are you sure they even exist ?
>
> Oh, like read() or write() for regular files? Yup, they exist.
And that would be? I've never seen such an abomination. Sure,
mapping pages on SEGV is use, but passing only partially mapped
buffers to read/write on purpose???
Ciao, ET.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-19 20:33 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <E178eMm-0000NO-00@wagner.rustcorp.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205171936220.1524-100000@home.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-05-18 10:16 ` AUDIT: copy_from_user is a deathtrap Andi Kleen
2002-05-18 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-19 2:10 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-19 3:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-19 3:05 ` Larry McVoy
2002-05-19 4:01 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-19 4:02 ` Larry McVoy
2002-05-16 23:56 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-16 23:56 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-19 3:31 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-19 3:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-16 23:53 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-21 20:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-21 21:17 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-21 21:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-21 21:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-21 21:46 ` Andrew Morton
2002-05-21 22:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-21 22:21 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-22 13:47 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 14:13 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-22 14:54 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 14:42 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-22 15:27 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 18:58 ` Kasper Dupont
2002-05-22 22:02 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-23 3:54 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-23 11:15 ` Edgar Toernig
2002-05-22 16:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-22 20:28 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-22 0:47 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-05-22 5:01 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-22 6:28 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-22 4:57 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-22 13:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 18:43 ` Marco Colombo
2002-05-19 20:23 ` Edgar Toernig [this message]
2002-05-19 22:44 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-22 13:40 Petr Vandrovec
2002-05-22 18:58 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-22 14:13 ` Ruth Ivimey-Cook
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-22 10:08 Petr Vandrovec
2002-05-22 16:23 ` Denis Vlasenko
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205191951460.22433-100000@home.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <E179fAd-0005vs-00@wagner.rustcorp.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-05-20 10:59 ` Andi Kleen
2002-05-19 3:38 Rusty Russell
2002-05-19 5:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-17 0:00 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-18 21:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-05-19 12:22 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-19 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-19 19:57 ` Roman Zippel
2002-05-20 2:06 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-20 2:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-20 4:53 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-19 20:12 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-20 16:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-19 11:41 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <mailman.1021642692.12772.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2002-05-17 17:36 ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-05-18 1:05 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-18 2:57 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-16 23:27 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <200205191212.g4JCCLY25867@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
[not found] ` <20020520112232.A8983@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
2002-05-21 10:57 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-21 6:21 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-05-21 8:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-05-21 19:02 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-05-22 14:27 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-17 9:27 Rusty Russell
2002-05-17 9:21 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-17 9:49 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-17 9:35 ` David S. Miller
2002-05-17 12:26 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-17 17:42 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-17 12:17 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-17 12:21 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-17 12:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-17 12:58 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-17 13:13 ` John Levon
2002-05-17 14:52 ` Alan Cox
2002-05-18 1:26 ` Rusty Russell
2002-05-17 17:58 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-18 2:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-18 15:06 ` John Alvord
2002-05-17 10:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
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