Messages in this thread |  | | From | tenthumbs@cybernex ... | Subject | Re: "Exception at ..." with 2.1.9 and 2.1.10 kernels | Date | Wed, 20 Nov 1996 01:20:04 GMT |
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On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 23:58:35 +0000 (GMT), you wrote:
> 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 >
Yes. I am wrong.
It was a null pointer being passed. This does bring up a minor question of whether a null pointer should be handled here or higher up.
Thanks for the info.
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