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Re: [PATCH RESEND net] nfc: use GFP_USER for user-controlled kmalloc

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On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 11:50 -0800, Cong Wang wrote:

> Hmm? I think nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame() needs to do some fragmention
> with this temporary memory, or you are saying msg_iter has some
> API available to seek the pointer? Even if so, it doesn't look like
> suitable for -stable.
> 

memcpy_from_msg(msg_data, msg, len) will overwrite the msg_data with len
bytes, or return an error.

So prior msg_data content does not matter.

kzalloc() before a memset() or memcpy() sounds defensive programming,
kmalloc() is a bit faster.



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