From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86: Implement strict user copy checks for x86_64
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:19:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110630121909.d4ac1bfc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1306865673-20560-4-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org>
On Tue, 31 May 2011 11:14:32 -0700
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> Strict user copy checks are only really supported on x86_32 even
> though the config option is selectable on x86_64. Add the
> necessary support to the 64 bit code to trigger copy_from_user()
> warnings at compile time.
So I'm getting 20-30 warnings from an x86_64 allmodconfig build.
I don't think we want a million other people to have to put up with
those warnings too. Can you please take a look at fixing these up?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-30 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-31 18:14 [PATCH 0/4] strict user copy checks on x86_64 Stephen Boyd
2011-05-31 18:14 ` [PATCH 1/4] [SCSI] lpfc: Silence DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS=y warning Stephen Boyd
2011-05-31 18:14 ` [PATCH 2/4] kprobes: " Stephen Boyd
2011-05-31 18:14 ` [PATCH 3/4] x86: Implement strict user copy checks for x86_64 Stephen Boyd
2011-06-30 19:19 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-06-30 19:23 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-06-30 19:36 ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-06 4:33 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-07-07 21:54 ` Andrew Morton
2011-07-08 1:15 ` Stephen Boyd
2011-05-31 18:14 ` [PATCH 4/4] Consolidate CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS Stephen Boyd
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