Re: [PATCH] Consolidate compat_sys_waitid

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Tue Feb 15 2005 - 06:09:08 EST


Hi Andi,

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:51:53 +0100 Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I don't think this will work for sparc64/s390/UML etc.
> They cannot access kernel data inside KERNEL_DS. You would need to use
> compat_alloc_user_space() for ru

.. and, presumably, for info as well. Interestingly, this code
came directly from sparc64 ...

However, if you are right, there are quite a few other compat sys calls
that should not be working either.

--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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