Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964791AbVLFR5H (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 12:57:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964794AbVLFR5G (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 12:57:06 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:4523 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964791AbVLFR5F (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2005 12:57:05 -0500 Subject: Re: copy_from_user/copy_to_user question From: Arjan van de Ven To: Vinay Venkataraghavan Cc: Steven Rostedt , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <20051206175301.34596.qmail@web32110.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20051206175301.34596.qmail@web32110.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:56:49 +0100 Message-Id: <1133891809.4836.56.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 1.8 (+) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (1.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [213.93.14.173 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 1.7 RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL RBL: NJABL: dialup sender did non-local SMTP [213.93.14.173 listed in combined.njabl.org] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 702 Lines: 17 On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:53 -0800, Vinay Venkataraghavan wrote: > > > The motivation for the copy to user question is due to > the handling of ioctl calls in the driver for a chip > that is widely used. I just could not beleive that > they would/could commit such a mistake. maybe it's time to give us the URL to the code... your questions are getting detailed to the point that people who help you should be able to see what the code is really doing.. - 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/