Re: [PATCH] x86, cpuinfo x86_model_id whitespace cleanup

Borislav Petkov
2015-05-19T20:31:58Z

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:16:23PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> It's not just chunk size; it's the direction. If the dest starts
> after the source but overlaps it and you copy forwards, then you can
> clobber the end of the source before you read it. memmove is

Some things should simply be done solely in userspace :-)

> specifically intended to avoid this.
>
> Would it be possible to just use memmove directly?

Yeah.

Prarit, care to send a v2?

Thanks.

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