Re: dev_ifname32() fails on 32->64bit calls in copy_in_user().

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Tue Oct 30 2007 - 21:07:12 EST



On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 17:38 -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> Hello folks,
> I've been using a nice program on ppc32 with a ppc64
> system+kernel. It uses netlink to determine some network interface
> information. Recent kernels cause it to exit at the netlink stage. At
> first, I thought it was a bug in the program. Now I'm not so sure.

.../...

Reproduced here, I'll have a look, thanks.

Ben.


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