Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2/2] ide-tape: small cleanups - handle copy_to|from_user() failures | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:03:23 +0000 |
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On Llu, 2004-11-29 at 23:23, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Alan: Would you mind explaining why this is not safe? If there's something > I'm missing I'd really like to know.
Wrong question. Prove it is safe.
Otherwise you are risking errors in critical devices (think backups) for the sake of fixing an essentially irrelevant limitation.
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