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Don't directly access userspace memory.
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Authored by brooks on Apr 13 2020, 11:56 PM.
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Rather then using the racy useracc() followed by direct access to userspace
memory, perform a copyin() and use the result if it succeeds.

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 15 2020, 3:41 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.
In D24410#537510, @imp wrote:

Yikes!

Yeah, I'm not convinced this should even exist, but making it less lame seemed like a good idea even if we remove it. Sorry I raced your review with my commit.

There's one more useracc in this file that I don't understand yet.