linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86, cpuinfo x86_model

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Message-ID: <20150519203148.GO4641@pd.tnic>
Date:	Tue, 19 May 2015 22:31:48 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Igor Mammedov <imammedo@...hat.com>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, cpuinfo x86_model_id whitespace cleanup

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:16:23PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> It's not just chunk size; it's the direction.  If the dest starts
> after the source but overlaps it and you copy forwards, then you can
> clobber the end of the source before you read it.  memmove is

Some things should simply be done solely in userspace :-)

> specifically intended to avoid this.
> 
> Would it be possible to just use memmove directly?

Yeah.

Prarit, care to send a v2?

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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