Re: [CHECKER] potential dereference of user pointer errors

From: Chris Wright (chris@wirex.com)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 17:06:54 EST

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* Junfeng Yang (yjf@stanford.edu) wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot for your confirmation! So actually the first copy_from_user
> is meant to copy in what "*data" points to, not "data".

That's how I read it, but I can't claim to know this code. Sorry, I mistyped
Jaroslav's address on the original email (fixed now), I expect he's the one
to ask.

thanks,
-chris

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