From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264373AbUFPSCE (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:02:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264368AbUFPR7o (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:59:44 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:951 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264371AbUFPR6v (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:58:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:52:31 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: markh@osdl.org, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, mark_salyzyn@adaptec.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] aacraid 32/64 ioctl support (update) Message-Id: <20040616105231.74bb78c9.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040616175325.GA16751@infradead.org> References: <1087401137.13488.61.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> <20040616160107.GA14144@infradead.org> <20040616160232.GB14144@infradead.org> <1087405920.13488.82.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> <20040616171924.GA15925@infradead.org> <1087408316.13488.93.camel@markh1.pdx.osdl.net> <20040616175325.GA16751@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:53:25 +0100 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I just noticed this. Can we use memset on a user pointer? If not, what > > would be the best way to handle this? > > > Good question. Maybe the architecture-folks know an answer? Use clear_user()