netdev - Re: [PATCH] wan-cosa: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating its implementation

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Date:   Sat, 20 Aug 2016 19:12:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wan-cosa: Use memdup_user() rather than duplicating
 its implementation

From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2016 10:42:54 +0200

> Le 20/08/2016 à 10:25, SF Markus Elfring a écrit :
>> @@ -875,16 +875,10 @@ static ssize_t cosa_write(struct file *file,
>>   	if (count > COSA_MTU)
>>   		count = COSA_MTU;
>>   	
>> -	/* Allocate the buffer */
>> -	kbuf = kmalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL|GFP_DMA);
> In this case, 'memdup_user()' has a different meaning, as GFP_DMA will
> no more be used for this memory allocation.

Agreed, this transformation is not equivalent.

Markus, please do not make these changes so blindly.