OT: kernel oops

[Jason White]

Chris Brannon <chris at the-brannons.com> wrote:
> Don Raikes <don.raikes at oracle.com> writes:
> 
> > The section of code that is having problems looks like this:
> *SNIP*
> > if (copy_from_user(&tbuf, buf, count))
> 
> This line is your problem.  You are passing a
> pointer-to-pointer-to-character (char **) as the first argument to
> copy_from_user, but you should be passing char * instead.  So ditch the
> ampersand, and all will be right with the world!
> I could give you a thorough explanation of why this is failing, if you
> like, but to make a long story short, this line of code is smashing the
> stack!

In other words, you're passing it the address of the pointer to the buffer,
rather than the pointer itself, which holds the address of the buffer.