Re: Kernel - User Space transactions

From: Rusty Russell (rusty@linuxcare.com.au)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 09:30:56 EST

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In message <7BF58A904536D411ADD400508BC97B8506C7EE@xover1.netplane.com> you wri
te:
> Hi....
>
> I am intercepting incoming packets before they reach the IP stack in
> "dev.c", and need to get/put information from/to user space from
> dev.c.

You can't, really. You can't use copy_from_user or copy_to_user, as
you will not be in a process context. You'd need to do something
tricky...

Rusty.

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