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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:19:09 -0700
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Validating Pointers
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On Thu 26 Jul at 18:12:57 +0100 alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk done said:
> 
> You can't pass kernel address as if they were userspace. It might happen to
> sometimes work on some architectures. Take a look at the set_fs() stuff

Am I?  I though I was doing a pretty plain user<->kernel copy:

	copy_to_user(user_addr, kernel_addr, size);
		and
	copy_from_user(kernel_addr, user_addr, size);

Are you saying that static and dynamically allocated kernel variables end up
in different segments (kernel_ds and user_ds) and the copy is only expected to
succeed if the to and from addresses are in the same segment?

Tim