From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:47:09 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Revert "[PATCH] usb: drivers/usb/core/devio.c dereferences a userspace pointer" X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc1~1072 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=83626b01275d0228516b4d97da008328fc37c934;p=pandora-kernel.git Revert "[PATCH] usb: drivers/usb/core/devio.c dereferences a userspace pointer" This reverts commit 786dc1d3d7333f269e17d742886eac2188a2d9cc. As Al so eloquently points out, the patch is crap. The old code was fine, the new code was bogus. It never dereferenced a user pointer, the "->" operator was to an array member, which gives the _address_ of the member (in user space), not an actual dereference at all. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed