linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb: use memdup

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Date:	Mon, 4 May 2009 07:53:48 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>,
	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>,
	Li Hong <lihong.hi@...il.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: use memdup_user()

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:41:51AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Sunday 03 May 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> >> No. To make it plain. To me any use of memdup_user() in USB code
> >> is a bad idea. I don't want to have to think about a new primitive.
> 
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:02 AM, David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net> wrote:
> > Unless it's incorrect to use that, I have to say that it
> > makes more sense to use that utility than recreate it by
> > open-coding...
> 
> Yup, and I don't really see how anyone can avoid "thinking about a new
> primitive" anyway. We have it in the kernel now and surely it will
> appear under drivers/usb/ sooner or later...

Well, how about passing the GPF flags down to memdup_user() so that we
can use it in the usb subsystem, and Oliver's complaint will be resolve?

thanks,

greg k-h
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