Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264916AbTFEVyP (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:54:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265203AbTFEVyO (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:54:14 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:52998 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264916AbTFEVyK (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 17:54:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 15:07:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Hollis Blanchard cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [CHECKER][PATCH] awe_wave.c user pointer dereference In-Reply-To: <6CB1C41B-979D-11D7-8338-000A95A0560C@us.ibm.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 697 Lines: 19 On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > Two ioctl functions in sound/oss/awe_wave.c were directly dereferencing > a user-supplied pointer in a few places. Please apply. When you do patches like this, can you please add the "__user" annotations while you're at it? Also, if your mailer doesn't rape whitespace, I seriously prefer patches in-line in the email, so that I don't have to edit the email and can reply to it directly? 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/