Re: access_ok inside kernelspace

David Woodhouse (David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com)
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 11:59:39 +0100

tigran@sco.COM said:
> calling sys_function() functions directly doesn't look right:

They're usually static, for a start.

What you probably want to do is jump directly to the appropriate vector as
stored in the syscall_table, without going through the int 0x80 vector to do so.

Actually, I had assumed that this was what _syscallX() already did in kernel
space.

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