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SubjectRe: access_ok inside kernelspace
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:18:40AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> it's a bug, system calls really should work from within system calls.

Ugh, really? It's going to slow down Linux/PA-RISC's syscall handler if
we have to check whether we're already in kernel mode. What's wrong with
calling sys_sysfs()?

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