Re: [PATCH v2 04/20] unify generic instances of csum_partial_copy_nocheck()

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri Jul 24 2020 - 08:30:46 EST


On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 01:23:37PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 01:19:18PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > > net-next has a patch from me killing off csum_and_copy_from_user
> > > already:
> > >
> > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=f1bfd71c8662f20d53e71ef4e18bfb0e5677c27f
> >
> > Nothing in that patch of yours touches csum_and_copy_from_user(). what
> > are you talking about?
>
> Sorry, I meant csum_and_copy_from_nocheck, just as in this patch.
>
> Merging your branch into the net-next tree thus will conflict in
> the nios2 and asm-geneeric/checksum.h as well as lib/checksum.c.

Noted, but that asm-generic/checksum.h conflict will be "massage
in net-next/outright removal in this branch"; the same goes for
lib/checksum.c and nios2. It's c6x that is unpleasant in that respect...