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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 15:54:58 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: lustre/lnet/lnet/lib-move.c: memcpy with (struct
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 02:28:12PM +0200, Andrey Utkin wrote:
> 2015-01-07 13:32 GMT+02:00 Dilger, Andreas <andreas.dilger@intel.com>:
> > On 2015/01/07, 1:36 AM, "Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> >> Didn't Al change these to kvec instead of iovec?  You have to look at
> >> the callers to figure out if it's actually a user space pointer or a
> >> kernel pointer.
> >
> > A patch was sent by Al on Dec 2 to replace iovec with kvec, in a thread
> > titled "[PATCH] staging:lustre:lnet: Incorrect type in assignment".  Greg
> > replied on Dec 10 in another thread (also fixing this same warning) titled
> > "[PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix the warning messages about casting without
> > __user macro" that Al's patch was in the staging tree for 3.19-rc1.
> 
> In current linux-next, I see none of the mentioned patches. Also I
> don't see them mentioned in GKH's merge commit "Merge tag
> 'staging-3.19-rc1'..."
> Is it ok?

Al's patch is now merged.