Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Dec 1999 07:53:31 +0100 | From | Jakub Jelinek <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.14pre13 - exception in __copy_user when running mount() |
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On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 07:44:07PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > > Alan owns the change, and it was done on purpose, and the behavior you > > see is correct, the Alpha port is the problem. > > > > Alpha is buggy for reporting exceptions wrt. user space accesses > > in the kernel logs, in fact it's a possible DoS attack on Alpha/Linux > > machines. > > > > So Alpha should be fixed. > > > > True but the simple page copy breaks in fun ways on some kernels and with > smb/ncpmount, so Im going to revert it to get 2.2.14 out of the door, then > give in and do a fs==ds test for 2.2.15pre
In that case we need to find another solution for sparc64 though into 2.2.14.
Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jakub@redhat.com | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/~jj Linux version 2.3.29 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips) ___________________________________________________________________
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