Re: access_ok inside kernelspace

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.COM)
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 08:22:28 +0100 (BST)

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On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > So, the moral (temporary moral, until I see the picture clearer) of the
> > story is: do not use system calls from within system calls. Is this
> > correct or is it a bug that I should try to fix?
>
> it's a bug, system calls really should work from within system calls.

good - I will try to fix it. In the meantime, anyone in the world can try
and fix it because it is easy to reproduce - just download version "d"
patch from BFS webpage (http://www.ocston.org/~tigran/patches/bfs) and
cause the module to autoload by mount.

Regards,
Tigran.

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