On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:46 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [PATCH] sparc: Add full proper error handling to strncpy_from_user().
>
> Linus removed the end-of-address-space hackery from
> fs/namei.c:do_getname() so we really have to validate these edge
> conditions and cannot cheat any more (as x86 used to as well).
>
> Move to a common C implementation like x86 did. And if both
> src and dst are sufficiently aligned we'll do word at a time
> copies and checks as well.
Now everybody is rewriting this in plain C, perhaps it make sense to
have it in lib/, so I don't have to write anything myself?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Lazy Geert
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