Re: [RFC][PATCH] Cross Memory Attach

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Sep 16 2010 - 12:55:41 EST


On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 08:11 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>>    if (copy_to)
>>       ret = copy_from_user(..);
>>    else
>>       ret = copy_to_user(..);
>>    kunmap(process_pages[i]);
>>    if (ret)
>>       goto out;
>
> Shouldn't we be using kmap_atomic()

Over a copy_to/from_user? Not bloody likely.

Linus
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