Re: [PATCH] x86: unify copy_from_user() checking

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 17.10.13 at 18:04, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> ... and the non-constant case be taken care of at run time.
>> That's precisely what the patch does.
> 
> fair enough.
> 
> I would like to see a comment above the code to describe this reasoning
> and the objective and what the desired behavior is... so that we don't
> have to reverse engineer this again 2 years from now ;-)

Will do, and then perhaps mirror the whole behavior to
copy_to_user().

Jan

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