Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: unify copy_from_user() size checking

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>> On 26.10.13 at 12:31, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > * Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I'd like to point out though that with __compiletime_object_size()
> >> being restricted to gcc before 4.6, the whole construct is going to
> >> become more and more pointless going forward. I would question
> >> however that commit 2fb0815c9ee6b9ac50e15dd8360ec76d9fa46a2 ("gcc4:
> >> disable __compiletime_object_size for GCC 4.6+") was really necessary,
> >> and instead this should have been dealt with as is done here from the
> >> beginning.
> > 
> > Can we now revert 2fb0815c9ee6?
> 
> Actually I'm afraid parisc would first need to follow the changes 
> done on x86 here, or else they'd run into (compile time) issues 
> (s390 and tile only emit warnings, i.e. would at worst suffer 
> cosmetically unless subtrees putting -Werror in place are 
> affected).

Given how trivial __compiletime_object_size() is, we could replicate 
a (differently named) copy of that in x86 uaccess.h?

This is something that would be pretty platform dependent anyway.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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