csum_partial_copy_fromuser

Tom Dyas (tdyas@hardees.rutgers.edu)
Wed, 29 Jan 97 15:00:10 EST

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The "implementations" for csum_partial_copy_fromuser in 2.1.x are all
currently just #define's over to csum_partial_copy. This is bad since
userspace can pass bogus pointers and no exception handling is done
resulting in an Oops. (I verified this with a small test program.)

Tom

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