The mips64 _access_ok macro in 2.4 tree returns 0 if 'addr' + 'size' == TASK_SIZE. Also, __ua_size macro returus 0 if 'size' is negative constant. I think we must not skip checking negative constant. Here is a fix. For 2.6 tree, only _access_ok fix will be needed (__ua_size is already fixed). diff -u linux-mips-cvs/include/asm-mips64/uaccess.h linux.new/include/asm-mips64/uaccess.h --- linux-mips-cvs/include/asm-mips64/uaccess.h Tue Jul 15 20:21:59 2003 +++ linux.new/include/asm-mips64/uaccess.h Thu Sep 11 12:29:08 2003 @@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ * - OR we are in kernel mode. */ #define __ua_size(size) \ - ((__builtin_constant_p(size) && (size)) > 0 ? 0 : (size)) + (__builtin_constant_p(size) && (signed long) (size) > 0 ? 0 : (size)) #define __access_ok(addr, size, mask) \ - (((mask) & ((addr) | ((addr) + (size)) | __ua_size(size))) == 0) + (((mask) & ((addr) | ((addr) + (size) - 1) | __ua_size(size))) == 0) #define __access_mask get_fs().seg --- Atsushi Nemoto