Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:06:14 +1100
From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org, anton@samba.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Consolidate compat_sys_waitid
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Hi Andi,

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:51:53 +0100 Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> I don't think this will work for sparc64/s390/UML etc.
> They cannot access kernel data inside KERNEL_DS. You would need to use
> compat_alloc_user_space() for ru

.. and, presumably, for info as well.  Interestingly, this code
came directly from sparc64 ...

However, if you are right, there are quite a few other compat sys calls
that should not be working either.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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