Pipe security problem

Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich (saw@msu.ru)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:19:21 +0400


Andrew Tridgell's patch fixing security hole in pipe implementation
was pending until "all the copy_from_user() problems are solved
properly".

Could somebody explain what copy_from_user() problems were spoken about?

Best wishes
Andrey V.
Savochkin

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html