netdev - Re: [WEXT 3/12]: Extract standard call iw_point handling into seperate function.

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Message-Id: <20071224.211845.192499191.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:18:45 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [WEXT 3/12]: Extract standard call iw_point handling into
 seperate function.

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:22:52 -0800

> On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 20:54 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > [WEXT]: Extract standard call iw_point handling into seperate function.
> 
> This potentially does copy_from_user twice,
> first to the stack, second to a kmalloc'ed area.
> Perhaps it's better to kmalloc first and copy once?

I'm preserving existing behavior in these changes,
feel free to make these kinds of improvements as
a follow-on changeset.
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