Re: IB/hfi1: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation in hfi1_user_sdma_process_request()

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>> Thanks for the patch, but this one is already taken care of along
>> with other similar uses of kmalloc/copy:
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-rdma&m=148656088729538&w=2
>>
> 
> Michael's patch doesn't change user_sdma_free_request() so it introduces
> a kfreeing an error pointer bug.

Did you notice that another local variable “tmp” was introduced in the update step
“[PATCH 27/27] IB/hfi1: Code reuse with memdup_copy” so that
the mentioned function will usually get a null pointer after a failure there?

Regards,
Markus
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