Re: strict copy_from_user checks issues?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Tue Jan 05 2010 - 08:33:43 EST


On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 05:34:43 -0800
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> this one is ... interesting btw... I have trouble myself finding where
> the check is done... so I can understand gcc having trouble too.

hmm I guess that's just because it's 5:30am here .. at 5:35am I do see
it.

Wonder if on x86 the function gets inlined, at which point gcc sees the
check, while on s390 it doesn't ?

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