Re: AUDIT: copy_from_user is a deathtrap.

Pavel Machek
2002-05-22T20:28:30Z

Hi!

> > > Its festering quietly in the glibc source tree where all large and
> > > dubiously justifiable hacks seem to end up
> >
> > In such case, linus, here is your "reasonable" example. For PPro, it
> > is faster to copy out-of-order, and if we wanted to use that for
> > copy_to_user, you'd have your example.
>
> Hey, you didn't read Alan's email.
>
> The fact that glibc may use it is a strike _against_ your example.
>
> Have you looked at glibc performance lately?

:-).
Pavel
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