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

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Message-ID: <s5hlgzpf1pk.wl-tiwai@suse.de>
Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:05:43 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
        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 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.


thanks,

Takashi