From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:06:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:06:36 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:41872 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:06:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 05:14:14 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20030331.051414.40786962.davem@redhat.com> To: sfr@canb.auug.org.au Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, randolph@tausq.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][COMPAT] fix for net/compat.c From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20030331163625.733559b7.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> References: <20030331163625.733559b7.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Rothwell Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:36:25 +1000 This is basically a patch from Randolph Chung who tells me that when a syscall is done from the kernel, you cannot pass user mode pointers to it on some architectures. So we need to copy the sock_filter array into kernel space before we pass it to the real system call. ... Please apply. Applied, thanks.