Re: [PATCH] x86, cpuinfo x86_model_id whitespace cleanup

[Prarit Bhargava]

On 05/19/2015 04:31 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:16:23PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> It's not just chunk size; it's the direction.  If the dest starts
>> after the source but overlaps it and you copy forwards, then you can
>> clobber the end of the source before you read it.  memmove is
> 
> Some things should simply be done solely in userspace :-)
> 
>> specifically intended to avoid this.
>>
>> Would it be possible to just use memmove directly?
> 
> Yeah.
> 
> Prarit, care to send a v2?

Yep, I can do that.  It'll have to wait until I get into the office in the
morning so I can retest.

P.

> 
> Thanks.
> 
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