linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] shm: add memfd

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sun, 15 Jun 2014 12:50:14 +0200
From:	Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>
To:	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Ryan Lortie <desrt@...rt.ca>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@...ah.com>, john.stultz@...aro.org,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>,
	Daniel Mack <zonque@...il.com>, Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Tony Battersby <tonyb@...ernetics.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] shm: add memfd_create() syscall

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:36:55PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
> +asmlinkage long sys_memfd_create(const char *uname_ptr, unsigned int flags);
[...]
> +SYSCALL_DEFINE2(memfd_create,
> +		const char*, uname,
> +		unsigned int, flags)
> +{

Shouldn't uname_ptr and uname be "const char __user *" instead of "const char *"?

Download attachment "signature.asc" of type "application/pgp-signature" (837 bytes)