Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Apr 2016 13:08:37 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/boot: Rename overlapping memcpy() to memmove() |
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* Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c > +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/string.c > @@ -1,7 +1,13 @@ > +/* > + * This provides an optimized implementation of memcpy, and a simplified > + * implementation of memset and memmove, to avoid problems with the > + * built-in implementations when running in the restricted decompression > + * stub environment. > + */
Does 'built in' here mean the compiler's implementation?
We cannot call kernel built-in functions yet, so we have to duplicate everything we might need, right?
Thanks,
Ingo
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