Re: [PATCH] ARC: uaccess: get_user to zero out dest in cause of fault

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Aug 22 2016 - 20:09:25 EST


On August 22, 2016 4:57:10 PM PDT, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:48:00 -0700
>
>> How new is it? The whole point was that we'd not have to worry and
>> wait for gcc features..
>
>It's been around for a long time.
>
>I'd say at least gcc-3.0 and later support it.

I think on some architectures it simply calls the library function, but that's okay.
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