From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Teunis Peters <teunis@wintersgift.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question: removal of syscall macros?
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:46:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1166039179.27217.883.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45804B99.2060008@wintersgift.com>
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 10:51 -0800, Teunis Peters wrote:
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> Now that syscall macros have been pulled from the -mm tree, what method
> is recommended to use syscalls?
>
> (I've wasted a day grubbing through sources before giving up and copying
> the old syscall macros into one key driver)
>
> _syscall macros are used by:
> ATI driver (no choice. I'm working with laptops)
.. which uses it to call mprotect() from inside the driver. That's a
nice security hole right there... better ask ATI to fix it urgently :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-13 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-13 18:51 Teunis Peters
2006-12-13 19:46 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-12-13 20:01 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-13 20:44 ` Teunis Peters
2007-03-13 3:06 ` albcamus
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