Re: [CHECKER] 4 security holes in 2.4.4-ac8

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 18:28:05 EST


Dawson Engler writes:
> Is there any way to automatically find these? E.g., is any routine
> with "asmlinkage" callable from user space?

This is only universally done in generic and x86 specific code,
other ports tend to forget asmlinkage simply because most ports
don't need it.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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