linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] pinctrl: Duplicate user memory in one go in pinmux

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Date:   Fri, 9 Jun 2023 09:21:33 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] pinctrl: Duplicate user memory in one go in pinmux_select()

On Sun, Jun 4, 2023 at 3:12 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> Current code is suboptimal in three ways:
> 1) it explicitly terminates the string which is not needed;
> 2) it might provoke additional faults, because asked lenght might be
>    bigger than the real one;
> 3) it consumes more than needed lines in the source.
>
> Instead of using kmalloc() + strncpy_from_user() + terminating, just
> utilize memdup_user_nul().
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>

Excellent patch, applied!

Yours,
Linus Walleij