linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: use memdup

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Date:	Sun, 7 Feb 2016 15:38:18 +0530
From:	rahul pathak <rahulpathaklinux@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	jslaby@...e.com, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
	pavel@....cz, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: use memdup_user to reuse the code

Hello Greg,

Yes I will do this.

Thanks
Rahul

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:15:33AM +0530, Rahul Pathak wrote:
>> Fixing coccicheck warning which recommends to use memdup_user instead
>> to reimplement its code, using memdup_user simplifies the code
>>
>> ./drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c:1709:9-16: WARNING opportunity for memdup_user
>> ./drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c:1752:9-16: WARNING opportunity for memdup_user
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rahul Pathak <rahulpathaklinux@...il.com>
>> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 28 ++++++++--------------------
>>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> Someone else sent half of this patch already, can you redo it against my
> tty-testing branch of the tty.git tree and resend it?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h