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SubjectRe: [CHECKER] 9 potential copy_*_user bugs in 2.4.1
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engler@csl.Stanford.EDU said:
> I wrote an extension to gcc that does global analysis to determine
> which pointers in 2.4.1 are ever treated as user space pointers (i.e,
> passed to copy_*_user, verify_area, etc) and then makes sure they are
> always treated that way.

Nice work - thanks. One request though, to you and anyone else doing such
cleanups - please could you list the affected files separately near the
beginning of your mail, so that people can tell at a glance whether there's
anything in there that might be their fault.

--
dwmw2


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