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SubjectRe: 2.2.14pre13 - exception in __copy_user when running mount()
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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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