On 20/05/20 23:28, Al Viro wrote: > Unless I'm seriously misreading that patch, it could've been done as > > static inline __must_check int memzero_user(void __user *addr, size_t size) > { > return clear_user(addr, n) ? -EFAULT : 0; > } > > What am I missing? Ok, I have a serious tunnel vision problem. Thanks very much Al. Since I have your attention, would you take a look at https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200421135119.30007-1-eesposit@xxxxxxxxxx/ please? Thanks, Paolo