Re: AUDIT: copy_from_user is a deathtrap.

From: Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Date: Sat May 18 2002 - 23:02:18 EST

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 02:01:25PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> But as we all know, it is harder to remove a feature from Linux, than
> to get the camel book through the eye of a needle (or something).

It's possible that I'm too tired to have grasped this, but if I have,
you're all wet. In all cases, read needs to return the number of bytes
successfully moved. If you ask for N and 1/2 of the way through N you
are going to get a fault, and you return SEGFAULT, now how can I ever
find out that N/2 bytes actually made it out to me? I want to know that.
If you are arguing that return N/2 is wrong, you are incorrect. 

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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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