Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 May 2004 13:11:37 -0400 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: i486 emu in mainline? |
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Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hi Arjan, > > On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 09:13:20AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >>on first look it seems to be missing a bunch of get_user() calls and >>does direct access instead.... > > > It was intentional for speed purpose. The areas are checked once with > verify_area() when we need to access memory, then data is copied directly > from/to memory. I don't think there's any risk, but I can be wrong.
Which will break with 4G/4G. You must use at least __get_user().
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