Messages in this thread | | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: console_lock too early in printk??? | Date | Sun, 2 Jul 2000 20:01:18 +0100 (BST) |
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Chris Lattner writes: > Assuming I'm operating on which platform?
Irrelevent as far as this goes.
> What if the platform has copy_from_user defined as memcpy?
Then it is broken as far as security is concerned and should be re-worked to fix this problem as well.
However, this point is also irrelevent since how you get the data for printk to use into kernel memory is not, and has never been under discussion in this thread. _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ |
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