Re: strict copy_from_user checks issues?

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jan 05 2010 - 02:36:29 EST



* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Warnings cannot be switched off anymore as it was the case in your first
> > version. However gcc seems to report quite a few false positives so it
> > would be good if it could be turned off again.
>
> hmm I thought most got fixed.. I'd be surprised if this part is architecture
> specific..... I rather fix the few cases left than disable the warning to be
> honest. It's not many, at least not on x86.

Would be nice to see the warnings reported.

Thanks,

Ingo
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