Messages in this thread | | | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Date | Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:30:25 -0400 | Subject | Re: sendmmsg: put_user vs __put_user |
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 20:51, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > Compat processes are not able to generate virtual addresses anywhere > near the range where the kernel resides, so the address range > verification done by put_user() is completely superfluous and > therefore not necessary. The normal exception handling done by the > access is completely sufficient.
I was more thinking about the effects of might_fault() then additional tests. -- 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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