Bug in geom_ctl errors handling.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

Good catch, go for it!

In message <20050407234424.GV837 at darkness.comp.waw.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek writes:
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>Hi.
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>I finally tracked down a bug which I was seeing from time to time.
>If you saw 'Bad address' as an result of some geom(8) command, you saw
>the bug.
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>The problem we got here, is that copyout(9) was done not from user
>process, but from eg. g_event thread, where address space is different.
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>Here is the patch to fix it:
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>	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/geom_ctl.c.patch
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>Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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