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Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 
> Following the recent reports about copy_from_user / copy_to_user getting
> misscompiled I changed these functions and a few others that also were
> suspect to suffer from the same problems.  I consider these fixes quite
> important and thus I recommend upgrading.
> 

What symptoms would one expect to see from this problem?