Re: [PATCH] lib: introduce strdup_from_user

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Jun 03 2011 - 17:57:46 EST

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On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 20:45:10 +0300
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> NAK
> It accesses userspace data twice.

Big deal, processors have caches.

Just needs the zero termination to be reliable.

Alan
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