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On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 09:18 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Hi Maduhu, > > On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 16:25 +0530, madhu.subbaiah@wipro.com wrote: > > > + put_user(sec, &tvp->tv_sec); > > + put_user(usec, &tvp->tv_usec); > > I won't comment on the rest of the patch, but this part is definitely > wrong. The pointer tvp is a user space address and once you dereference > that pointer to get to tv_sec, you can have a fault, which might > segfault the &pointer->member doesn't dereference the pointer, it just adds the offset of "member" to the content of the pointer. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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