Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2017 19:54:27 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][CFT][PATCHSET v1] uaccess unification |
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 07:48:24PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> BTW, ..._inatomic is a very unfortunate name, IMO - it's *not* safe > to use in atomic contexts as-is, to start with; the caller needs to take > care of pagefault_disable(). If anything, __copy_from_user_nofault() would > probably be better...
Not even that - again, it will happily trigger page faults unless the caller disables those. __copy_from_user_I_know_what_I_am_doing()?
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