From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Gadi Oxman <gadio@netvision.net.il>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2/2] ide-tape: small cleanups - handle copy_to|from_user() failures
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:03:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101816200.25603.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411300018240.3389@dragon.hygekrogen.localhost>
On Llu, 2004-11-29 at 23:23, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Alan: Would you mind explaining why this is not safe? If there's something
> I'm missing I'd really like to know.
Wrong question. Prove it is safe.
Otherwise you are risking errors in critical devices (think backups) for
the sake of fixing an essentially irrelevant limitation.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-30 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-28 16:32 Jesper Juhl
2004-11-28 17:34 ` Alan Cox
2004-11-28 19:39 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-11-28 21:16 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-11-29 22:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-11-29 23:23 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-11-30 12:03 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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