linux-kernel - Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ALSA: compress: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation

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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:25:48 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ALSA: compress: Use memdup_user()
 rather than duplicating its implementation

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 02:05:43PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Aug 2016 21:43:22 +0200,
> SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > 
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> > Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 21:02:06 +0200
> > 
> > Reuse existing functionality from memdup_user() instead of keeping
> > duplicate source code.
> > 
> > This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> 
> Applied this one, but the second patch won't be, since other people
> seem to disagree with the usefulness.

I see a v2 as well discarding patch 2 here and some other changes

-- 
~Vinod