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Hi - richardj_moore wrote: > I think this discussion has arisen before. We don't block even though we > appear to use copy_from_user this is because we intercept faults and call > back to the probe handler to do with them what they will. [...] Has this control flow seen much "in the wild", or is it largely theoretical? Even if there is some experience with it, it would be better if an alternate routine were available that was - explicitly safe to call even from interrupt context (perhaps passing an explicit reference to the user process in question) - failed via a return code rather than a nested interrupt - FChE
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