Re: [PATCH] kernel: debug: memcpy overlaped, use memmove insteadof memcpy.

From: Chen Gang
Date: Wed Apr 17 2013 - 05:43:36 EST


Hello maintainers:

please help check this patch, when you have time, thanks.


On 2013å04æ07æ 18:24, Chen Gang wrote:
>
> in memcpy, src and dest are overlaped.
> for default implementaion or some architectures, it is OK.
> but we can not be sure that it is OK for all platforms.
> and in this condition, the performance are not quite important.
>
> so better to use standard ways: let memmove instead of memcpy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c | 4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
> index d35cc2d..990b3cc 100644
> --- a/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
> +++ b/kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_support.c
> @@ -129,13 +129,13 @@ int kdbnearsym(unsigned long addr, kdb_symtab_t *symtab)
> }
> if (i >= ARRAY_SIZE(kdb_name_table)) {
> debug_kfree(kdb_name_table[0]);
> - memcpy(kdb_name_table, kdb_name_table+1,
> + memmove(kdb_name_table, kdb_name_table+1,
> sizeof(kdb_name_table[0]) *
> (ARRAY_SIZE(kdb_name_table)-1));
> } else {
> debug_kfree(knt1);
> knt1 = kdb_name_table[i];
> - memcpy(kdb_name_table+i, kdb_name_table+i+1,
> + memmove(kdb_name_table+i, kdb_name_table+i+1,
> sizeof(kdb_name_table[0]) *
> (ARRAY_SIZE(kdb_name_table)-i-1));
> }
>


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Chen Gang

Asianux Corporation
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