Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 May 2002 08:06:19 -0700 (PDT) | From | John Alvord <> | Subject | Re: AUDIT: copy_from_user is a deathtrap. |
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Maybe what is needed is a copy_from_user debug mode, like slab poisoning.
john alvord
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Fri, 17 May 2002, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > > Sorry I wasn't clear: I'm saying *replace*, not add, > > Ok, let _me_ be clear: replacing them with an inferior product that cannot > tell you partial copies is not going to happen. Not now, not ever. You > would break all the users who _require_ knowing about a read() that only > gave you 5 out of 50 bytes. > > Linus > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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