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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Vinay Venkataraghavan <raghavanvinay@yahoo.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: copy_from_user/copy_to_user question
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:33:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1133598789.22170.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051203021154.30862.qmail@web32113.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


> The piece of code that I am talking about is part of a
> driver code. Unfortunately I am not at liberty to
> divulge the name of the company. So in the driver then
> are not using copy_to_user and copy_from_user. That is
> what puzzles me. Moreover, where they are using these
> functions they use memcpy which is a big security
> risk.

I guess this is why you're not allowed to mention it... they'd be all
over bugtraq..

thank god for open source so that 1) customers can see the quality and
2) everyone can fix it....


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-03  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-02 22:40 Vinay Venkataraghavan
2005-12-03  1:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-03  1:38   ` Al Viro
2005-12-03  2:02     ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-03  2:11       ` Vinay Venkataraghavan
2005-12-03  2:22         ` Vinay Venkataraghavan
2005-12-03  2:27         ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-03  8:33         ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-12-03  9:43       ` Heiko Carstens
2005-12-03 12:14         ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-03 22:33       ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-05 13:31   ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
     [not found] <5fv0G-3kS-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <5fvam-3vP-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-12-03  2:47   ` Robert Hancock
2005-12-03  3:23     ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-03  3:33       ` Robert Hancock
2005-12-03  4:53         ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-03 22:35       ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-03 18:26         ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-06 17:53           ` Vinay Venkataraghavan
2005-12-06 17:56             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-06 18:23             ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-06 18:23             ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-06 18:42               ` Steven Rostedt
2005-12-06 19:58                 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-06 20:05               ` Vinay Venkataraghavan

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