Messages in this thread | | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | Tue, 29 May 2001 16:00:49 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [CHECKER] 4 security holes in 2.4.4-ac8 |
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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.
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