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Subject: copyinstr()
From: Vijay Singh <vijju.singh@gmail.com>
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Hi, I was looking for some help with copyinstr() on an amd64 platform.

My from address happens to be in the kernel (stack). I am getting an
EFAULT, and I am wondering how to fix that.

Would using memory from malloc() make a difference?

-vijay