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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [iov_iter] use memmove() when copying to/from user page
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 02:27:34PM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> It's possible that calling sendfile() to copy the data from a memfd to
> itself may result in doing a memcpy() with overlapping arguments.
> To avoid undefined behavior here, replace memcpy() with memmove() and
> rename memcpy_to_page()/memcpy_from_page() accordingly.

Er... And what semantics would you assign to such sendfile()? I really
want to see details, because it sounds like memmove() here will not be
any more useful than memcpy() - you still can esily get odd behaviour.

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