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Old 03-01-2013, 03:16 AM   #16
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Off: I don't know this 'access_ok' function, but I guess it is '(void *)u_tmp->rx_buf' they could have used, as 'void *' is the generic pointer type in C. (If type-cast was required at all.)
 
Old 03-01-2013, 03:36 AM   #17
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No (void *) will often cause problems when doing pointer arithmatic. access_ok is a kernel routiner used by anyone who write a driver to check that memory can be copied between kernel and user space.
 
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Off: Couldn't see any pointer-arithmetic in the quoted code, it was just a function call.
 
  


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