Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: "Exception at ..." with 2.1.9 and 2.1.10 kernels | Date | Sun, 17 Nov 1996 23:58:35 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Sorry, I'm still not buying that. Getname comes from linux/fs/namei.c. In
Thats a pity cos he's right and you are wrong.
> the code, it says that it is copying from user-space to kernel-space for > "efficiency." Exactly how is this a user problem? User code doesn't know > about kernel space.
User code passed a garbage pointer to the kernel. The kernel didnt like that and returned -EFAULT. The exception tracking is just debug stuff while this bit of 2.1.x is polished up.
Alan
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