Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 May 2015 22:31:48 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86, cpuinfo x86_model_id whitespace cleanup |
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On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:16:23PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > It's not just chunk size; it's the direction. If the dest starts > after the source but overlaps it and you copy forwards, then you can > clobber the end of the source before you read it. memmove is
Some things should simply be done solely in userspace :-)
> specifically intended to avoid this. > > Would it be possible to just use memmove directly?
Yeah.
Prarit, care to send a v2?
Thanks.
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