Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] x86: Cleanup and simplify cpu-specific data | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:31:02 -0800 |
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Better yet, fix the problem...
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> >* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > >> >In function ‘copy_from_user’, >> > inlined from ‘pktgen_if_write’ at net/core/pktgen.c:877:20: >> >>/home/kevin/linux/linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h:211:26: >> >error: call to ‘copy_from_user_overflow’ declared with attribute >> >error: copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct >> >make[2]: *** [net/core/pktgen.o] Error 1 >> > >> >On: >> > >> >gcc (GCC) 4.6.2 20120120 (prerelease) >> > >> >Is that my fault, or something else? >> > >> >Kevin >> > >> >> That comes from compiling with warnings as errors. Not that someone >> shouldn't look at that kind of problem. > >Can probably be worked around by disabling: > >CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS > >Thanks, > > Ingo
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