Re: [PATCH 2/2] Perform check in iov_iter_fault_in_readable() by check_readable_bytes()

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri May 15 2009 - 09:56:26 EST


> It would be quite nice if it were safe to call read(), get EFAULT

Even with that patch it is not safe, not even for write, because
it's racy.

-Andi
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