On Mon, 2017-06-26 at 13:34:15 UTC, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Larry Finger reported that his Powerbook G4 was no longer booting with
> v4.12-rc,
> userspace was up but giving weird errors such as:
>
> udevd[64]: starting version 175
> udevd[64]: Unable to receive ctrl message: Bad address.
>
From: Michael Ellerman
> Sent: 26 June 2017 14:34
..
> Al also pointed out that inlining copy_to/from_user() is probably of little or
> no benefit, which is correct
...
I was a bit horrified at the x86-64 versions of copy_to/from_user() as well.
With code that (tries to) error kernel pointers that
Larry Finger reported that his Powerbook G4 was no longer booting with v4.12-rc,
userspace was up but giving weird errors such as:
udevd[64]: starting version 175
udevd[64]: Unable to receive ctrl message: Bad address.
modprobe: chdir(4.12-rc1): No such file or directory
He bisected the pro