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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, linux@roeck-us.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: unify copy_from_user() checking
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:05:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <525EC73E.3060204@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <525EC6C402000078000FB895@nat28.tlf.novell.com>


>> if you have found cases where this matters... maybe you found a new security
>> issue...
>
> Iirc I could convince myself that in the cited cases the warnings
> were there for no reason.

can you pick one on a source level ?
(and the gcc 4.6 had a few false positives which is why it got disabled there)


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-16 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-16 11:36 [PATCH] x86: unify copy_from_user() checking Jan Beulich
2013-10-16 14:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-10-16 15:03   ` Jan Beulich
2013-10-16 17:05     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2013-10-17  9:45       ` Jan Beulich
2013-10-17 15:45         ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-10-17 15:53           ` Jan Beulich
2013-10-17 16:04             ` Arjan van de Ven
2013-10-17 16:08               ` Jan Beulich
2013-10-17 16:16                 ` Arjan van de Ven

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