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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 13:59:47 +0300
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Dawson Engler <engler@csl.Stanford.EDU>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [CHECKER] amusing copy_from_user bug
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From: ppetru@ppetru.net (Petru Paler)
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 06:41:28AM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> some architectures don't care at all, because verify_area is a noop
> (sparc64).

Why (and how) is this?

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