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SubjectRe: [PATCH] usb: use memdup_user()
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Hi!

On Sunday 03 May 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote:
>> No. To make it plain. To me any use of memdup_user() in USB code
>> is a bad idea. I don't want to have to think about a new primitive.

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:02 AM, David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Unless it's incorrect to use that, I have to say that it
> makes more sense to use that utility than recreate it by
> open-coding...

Yup, and I don't really see how anyone can avoid "thinking about a new
primitive" anyway. We have it in the kernel now and surely it will
appear under drivers/usb/ sooner or later...

Pekka


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