get_user() and put_user() missing in syscall list

Varka Bhadram varkab at cdac.in
Mon Jun 2 04:13:23 EDT 2014


These two are not the system calls. they are the Kernel API's to transfer the
data from user address space to the kernel address space.

please see:
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h#L239
<http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h#L239>
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h#L143
<http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h#L143>

Regards,
Varka Bhadram

On June 2, 2014 at 11:29 AM Dipanjan Das <mail.dipanjan.das at gmail.com> wrote:
<http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h#L239>

> 
>  Hi,
> 
>  Here's an exhaustive list
> <http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscalls.2.html> of Linux syscall, but I
> can't find get_user() and put_user() API. Why is it so? What am I missing?
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