Re: copy_from_user() fix

Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 23:01:26 +0200


Hi!

> > Also, I still maintain there should be a mode to raise SIGSEGV
> > whenever a system call returns EFAULT. Not doing so breaks the system
> > call/library routine transparency, and lets bugs go uncaught.
>
> Thats a matter for glibc. If you wrap the glibc syscall macros to do
> a raise(SIGSEGV) then you get your desire. So its a non kernel item ;)

Still, I think that this could be in kernel. It is faster to do here
(you can SIGSEGV it directly from pagefault handler), and IMO you
_should_ get SIGSEGV for read(0,0,1)...

Pavel

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