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SubjectRe: [CHECKER] 4 security holes in 2.4.4-ac8

Dawson Engler writes:
> Ah. I assumed that "sys_*" meant that all pointers were from user space ---
> is this generally not the case?

This shared memory syscall is just a weird exception.

> (Also, are there other functions called
> directly from user space that don't have the sys_* prefix?)

Almost certainly, arch/i386/mm/fault.c:do_page_fault is one of
many examples.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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