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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: strict copy_from_user checks issues?
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:35:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100105073558.GA22037@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100104174308.0790757c@infradead.org>


* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> > Warnings cannot be switched off anymore as it was the case in your first 
> > version. However gcc seems to report quite a few false positives so it 
> > would be good if it could be turned off again.
> 
> hmm I thought most got fixed.. I'd be surprised if this part is architecture 
> specific..... I rather fix the few cases left than disable the warning to be 
> honest. It's not many, at least not on x86.

Would be nice to see the warnings reported.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-04 15:43 strict copy_from_user checks issues? Heiko Carstens
2010-01-05  1:43 ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-05  7:35   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2010-01-05  9:48   ` Heiko Carstens
2010-01-05 12:47     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-05 13:19       ` Heiko Carstens
2010-01-05 13:31         ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-05 15:22           ` [PATCH] sparc: copy_from_user() should not return -EFAULT Heiko Carstens
2010-01-05 17:27             ` Andi Kleen
2010-01-05 20:47               ` David Miller
2010-01-06  3:20               ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-05 17:55             ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-06  4:42             ` David Miller
2010-01-05 22:15         ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86: " tip-bot for Heiko Carstens
2010-01-05 13:34     ` strict copy_from_user checks issues? Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-05 13:36       ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-05 13:45       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-05 13:52         ` Arjan van de Ven
2010-01-05 15:20           ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-05 21:44             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-07 14:02               ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-07 23:57                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-09  0:07                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-09  0:10                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-01-09  8:01                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-09 20:57                         ` H. Peter Anvin

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