Messages in this thread | | | From | Dawson Engler <> | Subject | Re: [CHECKER] a couple potential deadlocks in 2.4.5-ac8 | Date | Sun, 10 Jun 2001 00:45:05 -0700 (PDT) |
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> > Sure, it's a pretty interaction. To be sure about the rule: any *_user > > call can be treated as an implicit invocation of do_page_fault? > > As a first approximation, yes. The exception cases are certain callers > that use kernel addresses and set_fs(KERNEL_DS) in order to "fake" > arguments to system calls etc, but I doubt they should need any > special-casing.
I already have to special case the set_fs calls for the user-pointer security checker. It shouldn't be too much trouble to reuse the code. Thanks for the early warning.
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