From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261206AbVCQVqy (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:46:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261226AbVCQVqy (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:46:54 -0500 Received: from extgw-uk.mips.com ([62.254.210.129]:32775 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261206AbVCQVoS (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:44:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:43:02 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Jesper Juhl Cc: Andrew Morton , Yoichi Yuasa , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch][resend] convert a remaining verify_area to access_ok (was: Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-mm1] mips: more convert verify_area to access_ok) (fwd) Message-ID: <20050317214302.GA14882@linux-mips.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:35:09PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Around 2.6.11-mm1 Yoichi Yuasa found a user of verify_area that I had > missed when converting everything to access_ok. The patch below still > applies cleanly to 2.6.11-mm4. > Please apply (unless of course you already picked it up back then and > have it in a queue somewhere :) . Oh gosh, you actually converted the whole IRIX compatibility mess even, amazing stomach you have :-) I only noticed that when I just looked at Linus' tree - after buring a few hours into cleaning those files myself - mine are now almost free of sparse warnings. The last instance of verify_area() in the MIPS code is now the definition itself. Ralf