On Tue, 04 Oct, at 11:04:56AM, ivanhu wrote: > Hi Matt, > > The warning message is from Kbuild test robot, > > https://chromium.googlesource.com/linux-fpga-chameleon/+/fpga-chameleon-4.2/scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup_user.cocci, > > > and I believe it tries to persuade us to use memdup_user instead of kmalloc > and copy_form_user, > > With this new function, we don't have to write 'len' twice, which can lead > to typos/mistakes. > It also produces smaller code and kernel text. > > http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0903.0/02349.html Right, I understand all that. My question was specifically about the following sentence from your patch, > This is a little bit restricted to reduce false positives What restriction that reduces false positives are you referring to? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
