Re: [PATCH] tty: vt: use memdup_user to reuse the code

From: Greg KH
Date: Sun Feb 07 2016 - 02:31:10 EST


On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:15:33AM +0530, Rahul Pathak wrote:
> Fixing coccicheck warning which recommends to use memdup_user instead
> to reimplement its code, using memdup_user simplifies the code
>
> ./drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c:1709:9-16: WARNING opportunity for memdup_user
> ./drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c:1752:9-16: WARNING opportunity for memdup_user
>
> Signed-off-by: Rahul Pathak <rahulpathaklinux@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 28 ++++++++--------------------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

Someone else sent half of this patch already, can you redo it against my
tty-testing branch of the tty.git tree and resend it?

thanks,

greg k-h