Re: [CHECKER] 9 potential copy_*_user bugs in 2.4.1

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org)
Date: Fri Mar 16 2001 - 05:06:48 EST


engler@csl.Stanford.EDU said:
> I wrote an extension to gcc that does global analysis to determine
> which pointers in 2.4.1 are ever treated as user space pointers (i.e,
> passed to copy_*_user, verify_area, etc) and then makes sure they are
> always treated that way.

Nice work - thanks. One request though, to you and anyone else doing such
cleanups - please could you list the affected files separately near the
beginning of your mail, so that people can tell at a glance whether there's
anything in there that might be their fault.

--
dwmw2

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Mar 23 2001 - 21:00:08 EST