Re: [PATCH] ide: don't call memcpy with the same source and destination

From: David Miller
Date: Mon May 08 2017 - 17:37:29 EST


From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:35:33 -0400 (EDT)

> The parisc architecture recently reimplemented the memcpy function and
> their reimplementation crashed when source and destination overlapped.
>
> The crash happened in the function ide_complete_cmd where memcpy is called
> with the same source and destination pointer. According to the C
> specification, memcpy behavior is undefined if the source and destination
> range overlaps. This patches fixes the undefined behavior.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.