Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm, util: Do strndup_user allocation directly, instead of through memdup_user

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On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:

> I'm not sure this is the best solution,
> but creating another function to reuse between strndup_user
> and memdup_user seemed like an overkill.
> 

It's not, so you'd need to do two things to fix this:

 - provide a reason why strndup_user() is special compared to other 
   common library functions that also allocate memory, and

 - provide a __stndup_user() to pass the _RET_IP_.

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