Re: [PATCH] scsi: bfa: Replace kzalloc + copy_from_user with memdup_user

[Martin K. Petersen]

Hi Thorsten!

>>> No functional changes intended other than returning the more
>>> idiomatic error code -EFAULT.
>> 
>> How can we be sure that this doesn't break existing applications?
>
> I guess we can't because the error code is returned to userspace as
> the result of a bsg_job? That wasn't immediately obvious to me.

Correct. And with little chance of having the associated management
utilities updated, it's best to leave things as they are.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen