Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:22:05 -0500 | From | Bill Hawes <> | Subject | Re: No copy_from_user() in sys_umount() ??? |
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Richard Gooch wrote: > > Hi, Linus. I noticed that there is no call to copy_from_user() in > either sys_umount() or umount_dev(), even though the <name> parameter > is passed in from user space. Is there some deep magic I'm missing, or > is this a bug?
It's not a problem -- the name parameter is used only for the namei() call, which expects a user-space string and copies it.
Regards, Bill
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