linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: Add support for userspace strings

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Message-ID: <1431288580.29257.29.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Sun, 10 May 2015 13:09:40 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf: Add support for userspace strings

On Sun, 2015-05-10 at 21:42 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Add %pL format string to print userspace strings.
> It works like %s but does copy_from_user() instead
> of a memcpy().

I think this would be much simpler in a new
function rather than complicating string()


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