linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bitmap: bitmap_parse takes a kernel buffer instead of a user buffer

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Date:	Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:06:37 -0700
From:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
To:	Joe Korty <joe.korty@...r.com>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, reinette.chatre@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, inaky@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitmap: bitmap_parse takes a kernel buffer instead of a
 user buffer

Joe wrote:
> I guess I am a sucker for no-transient-buffer (bufferless?)

Ah - that explains Joe's preference for putting the actual implementing
code in the user version - it gets to pull in the user string one
char at a time, avoiding a malloc'd buffer.

I tend to make more coding mistakes that way, so have gotten in the
habit of keeping my scanning code separate from any code required to
get a nice safe local copy of the input that is to be scanned.

I agree with Joe - either way can be made to work - author's
discretion.  Just be sure to impose that sanity limit.

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