Re: Finding user/kernel pointer bugs [no html]

[Thomas Sailer]

On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 18:58, Greg KH wrote:

> > 	b) WTF is usb doing messing with it directly?
> > Note that drivers/usb/core/{devio,inode}.c are the only users of that animal
> > outside of arch/*.  Looks fishy...
> 
> I really don't know.  I think David added that code.  David, any ideas?

The idea was to tell the user which of his queued transfers completed.
si_addr seemed usable for this. as->userurb is the address of the
request structure in the user's memory.

Tom


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