Dawson Engler writes:
> Ah. I assumed that "sys_*" meant that all pointers were from user space ---
> is this generally not the case?
This shared memory syscall is just a weird exception.
> (Also, are there other functions called
> directly from user space that don't have the sys_* prefix?)
Almost certainly, arch/i386/mm/fault.c:do_page_fault is one of
many examples.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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