Messages in this thread | | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.14pre13 - exception in __copy_user when running mount() | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 1999 19:44:07 -0500 (EST) |
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> Alan owns the change, and it was done on purpose, and the behavior you > see is correct, the Alpha port is the problem. > > Alpha is buggy for reporting exceptions wrt. user space accesses > in the kernel logs, in fact it's a possible DoS attack on Alpha/Linux > machines. > > So Alpha should be fixed. >
True but the simple page copy breaks in fun ways on some kernels and with smb/ncpmount, so Im going to revert it to get 2.2.14 out of the door, then give in and do a fs==ds test for 2.2.15pre
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