linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.33-rc1 build failure: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct

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Message-ID: <4B2FADE2.200@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:18:26 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@...earchut.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc1 build failure: copy_from_user() buffer size is not
 provably correct

On 12/21/2009 03:09 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> 
> I have verified the build tree and am building from -rc1 only. The fix you've 
> mentioned above is also part of it.
> 
> debian-build:/tmp/all-yes-config/2.6.33-rc1# cat Makefile |grep EXTRAVERSION
> EXTRAVERSION = -rc1
> 
> Must be a newer bug then.
> 

No, it's the same one, but different gcc.  Sigh.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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