I am not sure about these changes too, but On 02/06, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > What's the upside? If somebody passes in a bad pointer, it's their > problem. Yes. But unless I am totally confused (quite possible) this put_user() can fail even if the pointer is valid. So at least I think Konstantin has found a real problem. Which (I think) shoud be fixed, and this is not connected to fork. > insane with the whole "readable vs writable" thing. Agreed, this part doesn't look nice in any case. Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
