Re: access_ok inside kernelspace

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:16:51 +0200 (CEST)


On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> this assumption is wrong - there are a couple of cases where sys_XXX()
> functions are called - sys_oldumount(), sys_creat().But there is no reason
> why they shouldn't be changed to use inlined _syscallX()'d things to be
> consistent, is there?

why this vendetta against using sys_ functions directly? We dont go
through a trap because in most cases that is unnecessery overhead. You are
not being logical i think.

-- mingo

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