Re: [PATCH] x86: unify copy_from_user() checking
From: Jan Beulich
Date: Thu Oct 17 2013 - 12:08:32 EST
>>> On 17.10.13 at 18:04, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> ... and the non-constant case be taken care of at run time.
>> That's precisely what the patch does.
>
> fair enough.
>
> I would like to see a comment above the code to describe this reasoning
> and the objective and what the desired behavior is... so that we don't
> have to reverse engineer this again 2 years from now ;-)
Will do, and then perhaps mirror the whole behavior to
copy_to_user().
Jan
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