linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] IB/hfi1: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation in hfi1_user_sdma_process

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Date:   Sat, 11 Feb 2017 10:32:59 -0500
From:   Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@...el.com>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
        Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@...el.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] IB/hfi1: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating
 its implementation in hfi1_user_sdma_process_request()

On 02/10/2017 04:04 PM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:01:55 +0100
>
> Reuse existing functionality from memdup_user() instead of keeping
> duplicate source code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>

Thanks for the patch, but this one is already taken care of along with 
other similar uses of kmalloc/copy:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-rdma&m=148656088729538&w=2

Will review the rest of the patch series soon.

-Denny