VERIFY_AREA
Section: (9)
Updated: 09 April 2004
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NAME
verify_area - Obsolete, use access_ok
SYNOPSIS
int verify_area (int type, const void __user * addr, unsigned long size);
ARGUMENTS
- type
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Type of access: VERIFY_READ or VERIFY_WRITE
- addr
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User space pointer to start of block to check
- size
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Size of block to check
CONTEXT
User context only. This function may sleep.
DESCRIPTION
This function has been replaced by access_ok.
Checks if a pointer to a block of memory in user space is valid.
Returns zero if the memory block may be valid, -EFAULT
if it is definitely invalid.
See access_ok for more details.
ABOUT THIS DOCUMENT
This documentation was generated with kernel version 2.6.0.
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