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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "Geliang Tang" <geliangtang@gmail.com>,
	"Felipe Balbi" <balbi@kernel.org>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Michal Nazarewicz" <mina86@mina86.com>,
	"Vincent Pelletier" <plr.vincent@gmail.com>,
	"Felix Hädicke" <felixhaedicke@web.de>,
	"Jim Lin" <jilin@nvidia.com>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget: f_fs: use memdup_user
Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 04:25:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170521032453.GW390@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170513080530.2rsqs3apd6w3psve@mwanda>

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 11:05:30AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> > +	data = memdup_user(buf, len);
> > +	if (unlikely(IS_ERR(data)))
> 
> Don't use likely/unlikely() here.  It's not a fast path.

More to the point,

#define IS_ERR_VALUE(x) unlikely((unsigned long)(void *)(x) >= (unsigned long)-MAX_ERRNO)
static inline bool __must_check IS_ERR(__force const void *ptr)
{
	return IS_ERR_VALUE((unsigned long)ptr);
}

IOW, IS_ERR() already produces unlikely(....), fast path or not.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-21  3:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-13  3:15 [PATCH] KEYS: use memdup_user Geliang Tang
2017-05-13  3:15 ` [PATCH] mmc: block: " Geliang Tang
2017-05-19  7:43   ` Ulf Hansson
2017-05-13  3:15 ` [PATCH] usb: gadget: f_fs: " Geliang Tang
2017-05-13  8:05   ` Dan Carpenter
2017-05-21  3:25     ` Al Viro [this message]
2017-05-14 11:33   ` Michal Nazarewicz
2017-05-13  3:16 ` [PATCH] USB: iowarrior: " Geliang Tang
2017-05-15 10:14   ` Johan Hovold

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