Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:50:38 +0100 | From | Philipp Rumpf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] userspace access in net-ioctl()s. |
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On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 04:21:52AM +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote: > copy_(from|to)_user() calls to behave the way I'd expected it to. Digging > a little bit further, I found the same in various other ioctl()-code in
Is there any disadvantage of changing the kernel to use a struct containing a pointer for untrusted user pointers ? This would prevent most accidents with them, I think.
Philipp Rumpf
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