Re: copy_from_user() fix

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 19:53:53 +0100 (BST)

> You propose to slow down every syscall return by test
> if (retcode == -EFAULT) raise(SIGSEGV).
>
> My argument is that if you do it from within kernel there's no such
> slowdown.

But there is no normal demand for this fairly weird feature to justify
bloating the generic kernel with that

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