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From: Octavian Purdila <opurdila@ixiacom.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v4 1/3] sysctl: refactor integer handling proc code
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:41:56 +0200
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On Tuesday 16 February 2010 10:41:07 you wrote:

> > +static int proc_skip_wspace(char __user **buf, size_t *size)
> > +{
> > +     char c;
> > +
> > +     while (*size) {
> > +             if (get_user(c, *buf))
> > +                     return -EFAULT;
> > +             if (!isspace(c))
> > +                     break;
> > +             (*size)--; (*buf)++;
> > +     }
> > +
> > +     return 0;
> > +}
> 
> In lib/string.c we have skip_spaces(), I think we can use it
> here instead of inventing another one.
> 

I'm afraid we can't, skip_spaces does not accept userspace buffers.