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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/17] perf, x86: Add copy_from_user_nmi_nochk for best effort copy
    On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:47:30AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
    > On 07/22/2012 05:14 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
    > > Adding copy_from_user_nmi_nochk that provides the best effort
    > > copy regardless the requesting size crossing the task boundary.
    > >
    > > This is going to be useful for stack dump we need in post
    > > DWARF CFI based unwind, where we have predefined size of
    > > the user stack to dump, and we need to store the most of
    > > the requested dump size, regardless this size is crossing
    > > the task boundary.
    >
    > Huh? This is a TASK_SIZE check, which makes sure that the request
    > doesn't cross into kernel land. Otherwise userspace could presumably
    > read kernel memory by setting bogus values of sp.

    haven't realized that.. new version won't have this

    thanks,
    jirka


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