allocate user-space memory from kernel

Question

I\'m trying to call

sys_readlink(const char __user *path, char __user *buf, int bufsiz)

directly, but get EFAULT error code. This error ap

Answer 1

You can temporarily disable memory address validity checking by using set_fs

mm_segment_t old_fs;

old_fs = get_fs();
set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
/* Your syscall here */
set_fs(old_fs);