Re: [RFC][PATCH] kmemdup_from_user(): introduce

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:39:00AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:27:53 +0800 Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > Let's not add wrapper for every two lines that happen to be used
> > > together.
> > > 
> > 
> > Why not if we have good reasons? And I don't think we can call this
> > "happen to" if there are 250+ of them?
> 
> The change is a good one.  If a reviewer (me) sees it then you know the
> code's all right and the review effort becomes less - all you need to check
> is that the call site is using IS_ERR/PTR_ERR and isn't testing for
> NULL.  Less code, less chance for bugs.
> 
> Plus it makes kernel text smaller.
> 
> Yes, the name is a bit cumbersome.

Some do NUL-termination afterwards and allocate "len + 1", but copy "len".
Some don't care.
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