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
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