Re: [Coverity] Untrusted user data in kernel

[Oliver Neukum]

> But the difference between you example (cp /dev/zero /dev/mem) and 
> passing unchecked data to the kernel is... you _can_ check the data and 

This is the difference:
static int open_port(struct inode * inode, struct file * filp)
{
	return capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO) ? 0 : -EPERM;
}
(from mem.c)

	Regards
		Oliver
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