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11-21-2011, 01:52 AM	#1
answerme Member Registered: Apr 2008 Posts: 97 Rep:	access kernel address Is there any way to access kernel address directly from user application . without using copyfromuser() copy to user() api .

11-21-2011, 03:00 AM	#2
NevemTeve Senior Member Registered: Oct 2011 Location: Budapest Distribution: Debian/GNU/Linux, AIX Posts: 4,856 Blog Entries: 1 Rep:	From user space you cannot access kernel-memory. Full stop. From kernel space you can access user-memory with functions copy_from/to_user.

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