netdev - Re: [GIT PULL] [IPV6] COMPAT: Fix SSM applications on 64bit kernels.

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Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:27:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dlstevens@...ibm.com
Cc:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] [IPV6] COMPAT: Fix SSM applications on 64bit
 kernels.

From: David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:23:15 -0700

> I wanted to allocate the copy on the user stack

compat_alloc_user_space(size), as you used it, is the way

On sparc64 I named the "within userspace" copy function
copy_in_user() and this seems to be supported well enough
to be used by the generic compat code elsewhere in the
tree so very likely it's supported everywhere it needs
to be

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