Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755962AbXJaBHK (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:07:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755258AbXJaBG3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:06:29 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:41932 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756219AbXJaBG2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 21:06:28 -0400 Subject: Re: dev_ifname32() fails on 32->64bit calls in copy_in_user(). From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: Joel Becker Cc: Linux Netdev , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20071031003850.GE7517@tasint.org> References: <20071031003850.GE7517@tasint.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:06:09 +1100 Message-Id: <1193792769.9928.84.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 646 Lines: 20 On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 17:38 -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > Hello folks, > I've been using a nice program on ppc32 with a ppc64 > system+kernel. It uses netlink to determine some network interface > information. Recent kernels cause it to exit at the netlink stage. At > first, I thought it was a bug in the program. Now I'm not so sure. .../... Reproduced here, I'll have a look, thanks. Ben. - 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/