Re: Finding user/kernel pointer bugs [no html]

[Timothy Miller]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > If you really want to force user space accesses to follow certain rules, 
> > make them longs or structs (or at least void *) (depending on 
> > architecture) so that only the proper user-space-access functions can 
> > interpret them.
>
>
> .. and this would be a total disaster.
>
> Think about it. The user pointer isn't just a "value". It has a type it 
> points to. We want to do


Makes sense.  Too many things my short-sighted suggestion didn't account 
for.


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