From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mtagate6.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.155]:54590 "EHLO mtagate6.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965472AbWI0Jbf (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:31:35 -0400 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate6.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k8R9VYfn119066 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:31:34 GMT Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id k8R9XWCY2556106 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:33:32 +0200 Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k8R9VXT2017603 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:31:33 +0200 Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH] Fix zeroing on exception in copy_*_user From: Martin Schwidefsky Reply-To: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20060926171150.bab8a5c1.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060926171150.bab8a5c1.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:31:32 +0200 Message-Id: <1159349492.24891.16.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.