On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 10:39:48PM +0100, Frodo Looijaard wrote:
> PS Things are not as bad as you might think; at several places, we
> call verify_area instead of checking the return code of
> copy_{to,from}_user. As far as I know, this should also guard
> against possible faults.
I don't think so. Consider a multithreaded application whose other
thread munmaps the area that you verified. Unlikely, but you don't want
to break.
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