On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 20:14 +0530, yogeshwar sonawane wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> can we write directly to user virtual address from kernel space?
> i.e. dereferencing a user address from driver entry point?
>
No this is not allowed and a big security hole at minimum.
You HAVE to use copy_from_user / copy_to_user and similar API to do
this. Be glad the FC3 kernel doesn't allow this at all ;)
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