netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/9] Bluetooth: Silence DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY

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Message-ID: <20110513210620.GB2187@joana>
Date:	Fri, 13 May 2011 18:06:20 -0300
From:	"Gustavo F. Padovan" <padovan@...fusion.mobi>
To:	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/9] Bluetooth: Silence DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS=y
 warning

Hi Stephen,

* Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org> [2011-05-12 16:50:09 -0700]:

> Enabling DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS causes the following
> warning:
> 
> In function 'copy_from_user',
>     inlined from 'rfcomm_sock_setsockopt' at
>     net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c:705:
> arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:65:
> warning: call to 'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with
> attribute warning: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably
> correct
> 
> presumably due to buf_size being signed causing GCC to fail to
> see that buf_size can't become negative.
> 
> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
> Cc: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@...fusion.mobi>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>
> ---
>  net/bluetooth/rfcomm/sock.c |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Gustavo F. Padovan
http://profusion.mobi
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