Re: copy_mount_options in 2.3.99-pre9-pre3 and ncpmount (an

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 14:16:33 EDT

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    > only available data. Do not forget that ncpmount passes ~70 bytes
    > structure into mount() and only kernel got strange idea that
    > it should copy PAGE_SIZE of data...
    >
    > Except that it breaks existing userspace program, I do not believe
    > that adding
    >
    > int dummy[4096];
    >
    > into ncpmount's main() is correct solution...

    Indeed. Neither is making copy_*_user slow 8). It needs more pondering

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