From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [PATRCH] janitor: hermes: delete verify_area call Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 22:15:46 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030929221546.7871ddf7.davem@redhat.com> References: <20030925215902.57f53822.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20030929052925.GA5037@zax> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rddunlap@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, jgarzik@pobox.com Return-path: To: David Gibson In-Reply-To: <20030929052925.GA5037@zax> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:29:25 +1000 David Gibson wrote: > Sorry, can you clarify why this verify_area() is not needed? copy_{to,from}_user() and friends do the verify_area().