Re: strict copy_from_user checks issues?

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Saturday 09 January 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >       return put_user(data, uptr);
> > 
> > The latter form requires a macro instead of a function for the user copy,
> > but we now have that anyway because of the size check.
> > 
> 
> Well... we already have the latter form?

Right, but my suggestion was to extend that do data structures in
addition to the scalars we are supporting now.

	Arnd
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