Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Oct 1999 11:03:10 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: access_ok inside kernelspace |
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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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