Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Jan 2015 15:54:58 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: lustre/lnet/lnet/lib-move.c: memcpy with (struct iovec*)->iov_base, which is __user |
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 02:28:12PM +0200, Andrey Utkin wrote: > 2015-01-07 13:32 GMT+02:00 Dilger, Andreas <andreas.dilger@intel.com>: > > On 2015/01/07, 1:36 AM, "Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote: > >> Didn't Al change these to kvec instead of iovec? You have to look at > >> the callers to figure out if it's actually a user space pointer or a > >> kernel pointer. > > > > A patch was sent by Al on Dec 2 to replace iovec with kvec, in a thread > > titled "[PATCH] staging:lustre:lnet: Incorrect type in assignment". Greg > > replied on Dec 10 in another thread (also fixing this same warning) titled > > "[PATCH] staging: lustre: Fix the warning messages about casting without > > __user macro" that Al's patch was in the staging tree for 3.19-rc1. > > In current linux-next, I see none of the mentioned patches. Also I > don't see them mentioned in GKH's merge commit "Merge tag > 'staging-3.19-rc1'..." > Is it ok?
Al's patch is now merged.
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