Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Question: removal of syscall macros? | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:46:19 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 10:51 -0800, Teunis Peters wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Now that syscall macros have been pulled from the -mm tree, what method > is recommended to use syscalls? > > (I've wasted a day grubbing through sources before giving up and copying > the old syscall macros into one key driver) > > _syscall macros are used by: > ATI driver (no choice. I'm working with laptops)
.. which uses it to call mprotect() from inside the driver. That's a nice security hole right there... better ask ATI to fix it urgently :)
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