"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:
>
> It would work if the access was surrounded by:
>
> old_fs = get_fs();
> set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
> ... get_user(kernel_pointer) ...
> set_fs (old_fs);
>
> But it is not.
It was supposed to be. I think we discussed it some time ago, but for
some reason it was never changed. Will submit a patch in a jiffie.
-Andi (to blame for that code)
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