kernacc, useracc — check memory regions for accessibility
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Bugs
The process pointer should be passed in as an argument to useracc().
Debian June 16, 1996 KERNACC(9)
Description
The kernacc() and useracc() functions check whether operations of the type specified in rw are permitted
in the range of virtual addresses given by addr and len. The possible values of rw are any bitwise
combination of VM_PROT_READ, VM_PROT_WRITE and VM_PROT_EXECUTE. kernacc() checks addresses in the kernel
address space, while useracc() considers addr to represent an user space address. The process context to
use for this operation is taken from the global variable curproc.
Name
kernacc, useracc — check memory regions for accessibility
Return Values
Both functions return boolean true if the type of access specified by rw is permitted. Otherwise boolean
false is returned.
Synopsis
#include<sys/param.h>#include<sys/proc.h>#include<vm/vm.h>#include<vm/vm_extern.h>intkernacc(void*addr, intlen, intrw);
intuseracc(void*addr, intlen, intrw);
