From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH] Fix zeroing on exception in copy_*_user
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:31:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159349492.24891.16.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060926171150.bab8a5c1.akpm@osdl.org>
On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 17:11 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I guess other architectures will need to do this. See
> 01408c4939479ec46c15aa7ef6e2406be50eeeca and
> 7c12d81134b130ccd4c286b434ca48c4cda71a2f for the rationale.
Urgh, s390 does not have the problem that is does pad the leftover bytes
in __copy_from_user_inatomic but that is does NOT pad the leftover bytes
in __copy_from_user ..
--
blue skies,
Martin.
Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-27 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-27 0:11 Fw: [PATCH] Fix zeroing on exception in copy_*_user Andrew Morton
2006-09-27 9:31 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2006-09-27 16:18 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-28 2:24 ` David Miller
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