From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: use memdup_user()
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 00:02:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905040002.38304.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905040854.03329.oliver@neukum.org>
On Sunday 03 May 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> No. To make it plain. To me any use of memdup_user() in USB code
> is a bad idea. I don't want to have to think about a new primitive.
Unless it's incorrect to use that, I have to say that it
makes more sense to use that utility than recreate it by
open-coding...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 7:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-03 16:00 [PATCH] usb: use memdup_user() Li Hong
2009-05-03 16:28 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-03 17:09 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-04 3:38 ` Li Hong
2009-05-04 6:54 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-04 7:02 ` David Brownell [this message]
2009-05-04 7:41 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-05-04 14:53 ` Greg KH
2009-05-04 15:13 ` Li Hong
2009-05-05 8:50 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-04 14:01 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-05 6:11 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-05 10:44 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-05 17:22 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-06 13:34 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-05-06 18:31 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-06 18:44 ` Oliver Neukum
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